Grujicic: Justified fear that we don't have mechanisms to lock up juvenile criminals

After the tragedies at the "Vladislav Ribnikar" school and the villages of Duboni and Malo Orasje, a proposal was submitted to change the Law on Support for Persons with Mental Disabilities. The public hearing was held, but the proposal was not presented to the deputies.

Grujicic said that she "doesn't know where it got stuck" and that the only objection was whether it means that someone will be "imprisoned for life," adding that the answer to that objection is "yes if the profession says that that person is a danger to himself and the environment."

"We now have three boys who committed terrible acts. This little boy who killed 10 people, then the one who slaughtered his friend, who was entering 'Laza Lazarevic' in Novi Sad, and the one who attacked a mother and son with a knife," said Grujicic.

She pointed out that these are serious attacks and that, as a doctor, she cannot understand why someone can think that someone who killed nine of his friends, eight of them female friends, or killed a man who never did anything to him, is without mental disorders – adding that he is not.

When asked how long it will take for the Serbian healthcare system to recover, to become efficient, Grujicic said that she thinks that "it will take 10 years" if reforms begin immediately, especially the reform of primary healthcare, which is the most important.