The Appellate Court has confirmed acquittal of Democratic Front (DF) officials Andrija Mandic and Slaven Radunovic. They were charged of attempted violent change of the constitutional order during the protest on 24 October 2015.
Mandic and Radunovic were acquitted by the first instance court on 25 May.
The sentence was issued by judge Vladimir Novovic. In the reasoning of the judgment, the judge stated that Mandic and Radunovic’s address during the protest could not be interpreted as incitement to violence but rather as “a call for a dialogue” and that their statements had to be interpreted within the context of the event.
The judge then said that the prosecutor “pulled certain parts of Mandic and Radunovic’s statements out of context”.
He also pointed out that the Court particularly considered the statement of witness Ranko Krivokapic who was Parliament Speaker when the riots took place.
