The Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, stated that as the Minister of Police and Director of the Security and Information Agency (BIA), he made lists of those who are not welcome in Serbia by law and conscience, adding that he regretted not paying more attention to them.
“The lists were made by me, as the Minister of Police and director of the BIA, by law and by conscience, and I regret that I did not devote myself more to them, because I see how many scumbags have been unfairly forgotten. Aleksandar Vucic was not asked about it, nor should he have been,” Vulin stated in a statement on the official website of his party, Movement of Socialists.
Reacting to the stormy reactions of part of the public after the Croatian singer Severina Vuckovic was detained for several hours at the border with Serbia because she was on the “control list”, Vulin stated that the list includes people who sang and spoke about Serbia in a bad context.
“On the lists that I submitted to the competent authorities with the order, there were foreign citizens who came to Serbia to participate in violent protests, but also drug lords, who are still feared from Sarajevo to Pristina and Skopje, and their vehicles were confiscated in Serbia and they were returned on foot across the border,” Vulin said in a statement.
He pointed out that in addition to the measure of “compulsory detention and enhanced control”, he also put on the list deputies who voted in the Assembly of Montenegro for the Resolution on the prohibition of denying the genocide in Srebrenica.
This Resolution was adopted by the Montenegrin Parliament on June 17th, 2021, by a two-thirds majority of deputies. In the period after the adoption of the Resolution, six MPs from the opposition parties of the Parliament of Montenegro faced problems at the border when trying to enter Serbia.
Singer Severina was released after several hours at the border, but she did not want to enter Serbia.
“During the interrogation, they started asking me questions about what I think about Srebrenica, Oluja, why I supported the demonstrations against lithium mining and wrote that this is the Serbia I love. They also touched on Jasenovac, as well asTudjman,” Vuckovic wrote in a statement after the incident.
She stated that she loves Serbia, where there are protests against lithium mining, but that she will not come to Serbia as long as Aleksandar Vucic is at its head.
“I love a Serbia where 100,000 Serbs are protesting for environmental protection and to save their country. And the one who is currently at the head of Serbia will not divert attention from the problems faced by Serbs in Serbia by bullying me,” Vuckovic wrote.
After the stormy reaction of the opposition in Serbia, non-governmental organizations, activists and artists, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, as well as the Minister of Police, Ivica Dacic, announced that Severina was not arrested but “detained for control”, and that the lists based on which the singer was kept “will probably be terminated in the coming days”, RSE writes.
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