Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad

It ordered the arrest of Novi Sad activists from PSG and STAV and charged twelve of them with preparing an attack on the constitutional order. The charges were based on footage from a BIA report that arrived the day after television stations had broadcast it. It charged 13 people over the canopy collapse, among them former minister Goran Vesić; following his appeal, the indictment became final for all of them in 2026. It charged the leadership of the Military Trade Union, including Novica Antić, with embezzlement, but merely forwarded the 2013 complaints against Dušan Bajatović to the Interior Ministry.

Affairs

• Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades: It detained four men who struck participants at a rally in Novi Sad with a vehicle and beat them
• Šušnica appointed more assistants and council members than the law allows: A councillor's complaint against the mayor was referred to it for review; no decision has been found
• “Ćacilend”: a pro-government supporters' camp in Pionirski Park: On its orders, an employee from Mali Zvornik suspected of using municipal vehicles to travel to the camp was arrested
• Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order: It ordered the arrests on 14 March 2025, and on 12 May it filed an indictment against twelve people and sought five years
• Arrest of dean Snežana Brkić in Novi Sad: On the orders of its corruption department, the dean was arrested on suspicion of unjustifiably inflated salaries
• Irregularities in the 2026 elections: It arrested four people over vote buying in Novi Sad and six employees in Mali Zvornik over registering voters from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Attacks by thugs and vote buying in the Kula elections: It requested a warrant to search the headquarters of the Novi Sad observer missions in Kula on election day itself, which the missions' lawyers call obstruction of election observation
• SNS supporters' attack on an exhibition in Bački Petrovac: After complaints from those attacked, it conducted pre-investigation proceedings and questioned five suspects; the sixth is scheduled for 31 August
• Collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad railway station: It detained suspects and indicted 13 people
• Dismissal and arrest of Novica Antić of the Military Union: It did not respond to questions about the arrest and sought detention, and the embezzlement indictment was confirmed
• SNS call centre at the Novi Sad Fair: police slow to arrive: Announced it would act urgently with the police against violence and breaches of public order and look into the election-related criminal complaints filed
• Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: It identified Matović, questioned him and charged him with violent behaviour at a public gathering
• Srbijagas under Dušan Bajatović: Received a 2013 criminal complaint against Bajatović over contracts signed without procurement and forwarded it to the police
• Phones and watches gifted to Novi Sad intervention police: Its Special Anti-Corruption Department is conducting a pre-investigation procedure and has taken statements from 35 people, including the police chief
• Destruction of official records after the elections: On 29 October 2026 it ordered the police in Novi Sad to urgently prevent the destruction of official files
• Vuletić arrested over money for third and fourth children: The Special Anti-Corruption Department ordered the arrest of two suspects, questioned them and requested that they be remanded in custody

People

• Slobodan Josimović: public prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad