Novi Sad, Serbia – The Higher Court in Novi Sad announced today that it has rejected the appeals filed by the defense lawyers of four SNS activists: Nikola Blagojević, Danilo Raičević, Stefan Kojović, and Nemanja Despotović. The court stated that the appeals were unfounded.
“The case files from the Basic Court in Novi Sad, along with the appeals filed by the defendants’ lawyers against the Basic Court’s non-trial panel decision from April 23, 2025, which extended the detention of the four named defendants for 30 days due to reasons prescribed by Article 211, paragraph 1, item 3 of the Criminal Procedure Code, and according to which decision the detention could last until May 25, 2025, were submitted to the Higher Court in Novi Sad, as the second-instance court, yesterday, May 22, 2025,” stated the Higher Court in Novi Sad in its announcement.
During the session, the panel of the Higher Court in Novi Sad, deciding on the appeals, rejected the appeals submitted by the defendants’ lawyers as unfounded by a majority vote.
The case files, along with the second-instance decision, were immediately returned to the Basic Court in Novi Sad, also considering that the detention of the defendants under that decision can last at most until May 25, 2025, by which time the first-instance court will, ex officio, again review the justification for the extension of detention.
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Background of the Attack
To recap, the four “heroes,” as Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić “described” Nikola Blagojević, Danilo Raičević, Stefan Kojović, and Nemanja Despotović on his Instagram profile two days ago, were arrested and remain in custody for two attacks on students that occurred on the night of January 27-28, 2025, in Novi Sad.
The attacks took place at two locations, and several students were seriously injured, including a female student from the Academy of Arts who suffered a broken jaw.
On the same day, January 28, following the attacks on students, Miloš Vučević resigned as Prime Minister, leading to the fall of the Serbian Government. As Vučević stated at the time, the reason for his resignation was precisely the attack on students in front of the SNS premises in Novi Sad. He also said that he was “objectively responsible for it.”
“And then, this morning when I woke up, got up, I saw this news from Novi Sad, that early this morning there was a physical confrontation in a street where a female student, a young woman, was injured, and that the conflict started because someone had again come in front of the SNS party premises, wanting to attack them, to deface them. That people believed they should defend that, and that their verbal conflict ended up at another location,” Vučević said, thereby admitting that members or activists of the SNS were behind the attack on the students.
On the same day, Novi Sad Mayor Milan Đurić also submitted his resignation. Đurić did not directly address the media but first announced his resignation on his Instagram profile. Among other things, he stated that he was resigning “to calm tensions,” citing it as his “human and political obligation and moral duty.”
The four suspects, Nikola Blagojević, Danilo Raičević, Stefan Kojović, and Nemanja Despotović, were swiftly arrested, and their trial began on April 30 in Novi Sad.
As stated by the court at the time, the public prosecutor of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad filed an indictment proposal against the four activists on March 18.
The indictment proposal was filed against Stefan Kojović (30) from Sremski Karlovci on suspicion of committing criminal acts of violent behavior, grievous bodily harm, and violent behavior as an accomplice.
The indictment proposal was also filed against Nemanja Despotović (22), Danilo Raičević (22), and Nikola Blagojević (22) from Novi Sad on suspicion of committing criminal acts of grievous bodily harm and violent behavior as accomplices.
It is worth noting that Aleksandar Vučić and Miloš Vučević, on May 20, called for a blockade of the court in Novi Sad, with the aim of securing the release of the four SNS attackers on students.
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