In July 2025, at the prosecution's request, he ordered up to 30 days' detention for seven people arrested after a blockade in Užice, one of them in absentia while he was in hospital and before he had been questioned. A panel of the same court lifted the detention after seven days. One of those charged claims that the justice minister asked for the case to be handled by the court president, and that the judge assigned to the case had, according to him, attended a Vučić rally.