{"id":199546,"date":"2026-01-27T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=199546"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:56:37","slug":"who-is-responsible-for-the-death-of-samir-dolovac-family-claims-he-was-beaten-by-police-mayor-of-novi-pazar-calls-for-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/who-is-responsible-for-the-death-of-samir-dolovac-family-claims-he-was-beaten-by-police-mayor-of-novi-pazar-calls-for-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF SAMIR DOLOVAC? Family Claims He Was Beaten by Police, Mayor of Novi Pazar Calls for Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The mayor of Novi Pazar, Nihat Bi\u0161evac, has called on the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) and relevant state authorities to \u201cimmediately\u201d and \u201cfully\u201d inform the public about the death of Samir Dolovac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolovac passed away on January 21 at the Clinical Center in Kragujevac, where he had been transported on November 10 from Novi Pazar due to injuries he allegedly sustained from police officers on October 30 of last year, according to his family members, as reported by the portal Radio Sto Plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn open, clear, and impartial institutional response is of critical importance to prevent speculation, abuse, and further tensions among citizens. System institutions must act professionally, lawfully, and in a timely manner, and any potential failure must be thoroughly investigated and sanctioned in accordance with the law,\u201d Bi\u0161evac stated in a press release, according to the media outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago, the Citizens\u2019 Assembly of Novi Pazar also demanded a transparent investigation and reaction from state authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Basic Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Novi Pazar previously announced that it had ordered an autopsy of Dolovac\u2019s body and issued instructions to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade to determine the circumstances of his death, Radio Sto Plus reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also noted that the MUP\u2019s Internal Control had already submitted a report containing statements from witnesses and the police officers involved in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbian-bishop-gave-a-speech-before-the-american-vice-president-irinej-opened-the-march-for-life-with-a-prayer-then-gave-the-podium-to-j-d-vance-video-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">SERBIAN BISHOP GAVE A SPEECH BEFORE THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT: Irinej opened the \u201cMarch for Life\u201d with a prayer, then gave the podium to J.D. 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(VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Fonet, <strong>Foto:<\/strong> Privatna arhiva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Novi Pazar, Nihat Bi\u0161evac, has called on the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) and relevant state authorities to \u201cimmediately\u201d and \u201cfully\u201d inform the public about the death of Samir Dolovac. Dolovac passed away on January 21 at the Clinical Center in Kragujevac, where he had been transported on November 10 from Novi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":199547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10974,1519,2715,478,320,113,262],"class_list":["post-199546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-gradonacelnik-novog-pazara","tag-istraga","tag-novi-pazar","tag-policija","tag-porodica","tag-srbija","tag-tragedija","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199561,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199546\/revisions\/199561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}