President of the Association of Prosecutors: The "fountain of desire" has opened, Vučić's statement is undue pressure

The president of the Association of Prosecutors, Lidija Komlen Nikolić, assessed today, regarding the actions of the prosecution in the current events, that "a fountain of desire has opened", although, as she reminded, the Constitution guarantees the autonomy of public prosecutions.

The statement by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić that public prosecutors and police officers will be replaced if they fail to protect order and the law cannot be understood otherwise than as an encroachment on the jurisdiction of the judicial authorities, contrary to the independence of the judiciary and the independence of the public prosecutor's office proclaimed by the Constitution, the Association of Judges of Serbia assessed. In a statem…