During the main hearing at the High court in Belgrade in the case against the ex-spokesperson for MIA’s anti-terrorist unit Radomir Pocuca on the charges of the endangerment of safety of NGO activists from “Women in Black”, Pocuca said the he did not commit the criminal act he is being charged with.
The prosecutor’s office for high-tech crime has filed criminal charges against Pocuca for threats issued over the Facebook social network to Women in Black.
“My FB status is my opinion and stance, not an order. I had no intention of endangering people’s lives”, said Pocuca during his hearing before the High court in Belgrade.
He added that he had no intention partaking in the “lynch of Women in Black orchestrated by the media”, nor calling for anyone to lynch someone, RTS reports.
“Non-government organizations Women in Black, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Humanitarian Law Center and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights are stooping to provocations and the government allowed for it. It is clear that the charges are pointless, but that NGO needed a scapegoat to smother the patriotic sentiments of our people”, added Pocuca.
Pocuca was arrested in late march in Serbia based on a warrant issued for avoiding trial but he was soon released on bail and his passport had been taken away.
