“Hooligans should be treated as criminals”

Deputy Public Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanović told B92 that the state should treat hooligans and extremists as organized criminals.

Izvor: B92

Saturday, 16.10.2010.

10:00

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Deputy Public Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic told B92 that the state should treat hooligans and extremists as organized criminals. “Prosecution’s operational data show that these people are involved in crimes,” he pointed out. “Hooligans should be treated as criminals” Hundreds of criminal charges against hooligans prove that they are not football supporters but criminals who are involved in blackmails, extortion, kidnappings and drug trafficking, the deputy prosecutor stated. “Legal presumptions have to be fulfilled for a proceeding to begin before the Special Prosecution for Organized Crime. Changes in the Criminal Procedure Code could contribute to that. The state should take some measures in that direction,” Radovanovic stressed. When asked why there were no verdicts in cases against hooligans, the deputy said that the entire judicial reform had been implemented so courts would quickly and efficiently reach verdicts, especially in situations of increased danger to society. “I think that we will have far quicker proceedings in this situation and verdicts will help us before the Constitutional Court of Serbia,” he explained. He has also assessed that hooligans and extremists are social evil and that the latest riots in the streets of Belgrade and Genoa are “alarming events”. Radovanovic filed a motion to ban 14 supporter groups and two extremists groups, Obraz and Movement 1389, a year ago. He added that certain extremists groups were very much endangering rights and freedoms of others even though they were not registered. The deputy prosecutor pointed out that security services had had enough operational data, which had been submitted to the prosecution, and that this had been a basis for the motion to ban the groups. Slobodan Radovanovic (FoNet)

“Hooligans should be treated as criminals”

Hundreds of criminal charges against hooligans prove that they are not football supporters but criminals who are involved in blackmails, extortion, kidnappings and drug trafficking, the deputy prosecutor stated.

“Legal presumptions have to be fulfilled for a proceeding to begin before the Special Prosecution for Organized Crime. Changes in the Criminal Procedure Code could contribute to that. The state should take some measures in that direction,” Radovanović stressed.

When asked why there were no verdicts in cases against hooligans, the deputy said that the entire judicial reform had been implemented so courts would quickly and efficiently reach verdicts, especially in situations of increased danger to society.

“I think that we will have far quicker proceedings in this situation and verdicts will help us before the Constitutional Court of Serbia,” he explained.

He has also assessed that hooligans and extremists are social evil and that the latest riots in the streets of Belgrade and Genoa are “alarming events”.

Radovanović filed a motion to ban 14 supporter groups and two extremists groups, Obraz and Movement 1389, a year ago.

He added that certain extremists groups were very much endangering rights and freedoms of others even though they were not registered.

The deputy prosecutor pointed out that security services had had enough operational data, which had been submitted to the prosecution, and that this had been a basis for the motion to ban the groups.

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