The Initiative 'Don't Drown Belgrade' and the Institute for Urban Politics said they filed charges against Serbia's capital Major Goran Vesic for slander on Monday. Pročitaj više

The Initiative’s representative Radomir Lazovic told reporters that the cause for the charges was „a series of insults“ Vesic made after „analysing and publishing harmful projects,“ describing the activists as „sick people, sadists, psychopaths, idiots, ignorant, a gang and a cult.“

The main criticism by the Initiative and the Institute related to the reconstruction of one of the main Belgrade Tzar Dusan street, the building of the national soccer stadium and the project of arranging the largest city’s Kosutnjak forest that included the forestation.

Lazovic added that those Vesic’s words ended in pro-government dailies Kurir, Informer, Alo and Pink TV’s Pink and Happies channels with national frequency.

He said Vesic’s accusations led to three attacks on the Initiative’s premises in ten days.

The Institute Director Iva Cukic said that institutions published objections in line with the law and when it saw the projects as harmful and not based on the law.
She accused Vesic of „using insults, untruths and fabrications“ instead of arguments in commenting on the general politics which he carried out.

Cukic added Vesic should be held responsible for the „big damage he caused to the Institute’s professional and personal work.“