{"id":220182,"date":"2026-10-20T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=220182"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:34:24","slug":"persecution-of-the-petrovic-family-continues-rank-revoked-from-husband-of-policewoman-who-exposed-vucics-godfather-over-a-caricature-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/persecution-of-the-petrovic-family-continues-rank-revoked-from-husband-of-policewoman-who-exposed-vucics-godfather-over-a-caricature-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"PERSECUTION OF THE PETROVI\u0106 FAMILY CONTINUES: Rank revoked from husband of policewoman who exposed Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s godfather over a caricature on Facebook!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Disciplinary Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) has rejected the appeal of traffic police officer Goran Petrovi\u0107, the husband of police major Katarina Petrovi\u0107 from Valjevo, who was punished in first-instance disciplinary proceedings conducted before the disciplinary superior in Valjevo by having his rank revoked over a caricature of a police officer posted on his private Facebook profile.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This confirmed the decision made by Mirjana Milovanovi\u0107, the disciplinary superior who conducted the first-instance proceedings and is a close associate of Valjevo police chiefs Vlada Jerini\u0107 and Dragan Dobrisavljevi\u0107, who have been identified as the commanders responsible for the brutal violence against students and citizens during last year\u2019s protest in Valjevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to sources cited by Nova, the proceedings conducted by Milovanovi\u0107 were based on illegalities, and the decision to punish Petrovi\u0107 was made with serious violations of the rules governing disciplinary proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The confirmation of such a decision has further fueled suspicions that Goran Petrovi\u0107 was targeted by his superiors because of his wife Katarina, who has been suffering the consequences for more than three years after publishing details of a traffic accident in Dedinje caused by Nikola Petrovi\u0107, the godfather of the former president of the Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this way, the regime has once again targeted a disobedient policewoman who has been facing persecution within the MUP for three years. In addition to being unlawfully arrested and detained, she is now being kept under suspension, which has meant that she has not received her full salary for years. The fact that her husband has now had his rank revoked, which will also affect his income, makes it reasonable to conclude that they are deliberately targeting the couple in an organized effort to threaten their livelihood. Goran Petrovi\u0107 has also received \u2018warnings\u2019 that he will be punished by being transferred from Valjevo to another city,\u201d a well-informed source told Nova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source recalls that among the witnesses in the proceedings against Petrovi\u0107 were police officers whose names appear in a criminal complaint filed with the Prosecutor\u2019s Office for Organized Crime over violence against students and citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the irregularities in the proceedings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Petrovi\u0107 posted the caricature that led to the disciplinary proceedings on his private Facebook profile back in November 2024. Like the other content on his profile, the post was visible only to a limited circle of people who follow him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drawing depicts a fully equipped police officer with a child running into his arms on the doorstep of his family home, while red boot prints remain behind him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The caricature was soon taken from his profile and shared in the \u201cPU Valjevo\u201d Viber group, prompting a reaction from his superior, Valjevo Traffic Police Chief Lieutenant Colonel Predrag Radosavljevi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radosavljevi\u0107 submitted an initiative to launch disciplinary proceedings over suspicions that Petrovi\u0107 had committed a serious breach of official duty, namely that his conduct had damaged the reputation of the MUP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dejan Ostoji\u0107, the police officer responsible for initiating disciplinary proceedings against Valjevo police officers, then accepted the initiative and launched the proceedings, which were conducted by disciplinary superior Major Mirjana Milovanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Nova\u2019s source, the proceedings were burdened with legal shortcomings from the very beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first unlawful act in the proceedings initiated by Major Milovanovi\u0107, and the major legal error she made, was that she questioned Chief Radosavljevi\u0107 and Dejan Ostoji\u0107 as witnesses. She was not allowed to do that because both of them, as the initiators of the proceedings, have the status of parties to the case. This applies particularly to Ostoji\u0107, who initiated the proceedings in his official capacity, acting under the authority of Valjevo Police Department Chief Vlada Jerini\u0107,\u201d the source said previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four other police officers were also questioned as witnesses \u2013 Milan Cviji\u0107, Zoran Vukosavljevi\u0107, Ranko Jevti\u0107 and Milovan Mirkovi\u0107 \u2013 whose statements were, according to the source, largely identical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey all said they were outraged by Petrovi\u0107\u2019s \u2018story\u2019 and that they felt humiliated and distressed,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, one police officer\u2019s testimony was different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRanko Jevti\u0107 initially said that he did not have Facebook at all, but that a colleague had shown him the caricature. He was additionally offended because he recognized himself in the police officer in the drawing \u2018because of the bloody footprints,\u2019 since he had \u2018spent two wars in uniform.\u2019 Given that the caricature contains no specific identifying features, the person conducting the questioning failed to ask the \u2018distressed\u2019 witness whether he felt the same way about all drawings depicting uniformed personnel or only this one, and why this particular drawing affected him,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who actually linked the MUP to the caricature?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Police Major Mirjana Milovanovi\u0107, who concluded the first-instance proceedings against Petrovi\u0107 and determined that he had committed a serious breach of official duty, imposed the penalty of revoking his rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Nova\u2019s source, she accepted the claims made by the initiators of the proceedings and the witnesses who were questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt remains unclear why, and on what basis, Milovanovi\u0107 linked the controversial caricature \u2013 that is, the bloody boot prints \u2013 to the Serbian police, given that the police officer depicted could have been anyone in the world. Ultimately, it turns out that she was the one who, through this decision, unequivocally attributed the bloody boots to MUP officers, not Petrovi\u0107, whose only \u2018offense\u2019 was posting an ordinary drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source adds that the four police officers whose statements underpin the decision are named in a criminal complaint over suspicions that they took part in beating citizens during the violence against them on August 15 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Disciplinary Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) has rejected the appeal of traffic police officer Goran Petrovi\u0107, the husband of police major Katarina Petrovi\u0107 from Valjevo, who was punished in first-instance disciplinary proceedings conducted before the disciplinary superior in Valjevo by having his rank revoked over a caricature of a police officer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":220183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[2678,14580,477,4833,478],"class_list":["post-220182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-fejsbuk","tag-katarina-petrovic","tag-mup","tag-otkaz","tag-policija","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t