Manojlović: Kričak behaves like an “SNS SS party division” — police are following the Student List candidates

The leader of the Kreni-Promeni movement, Savo Manojlović, declared today that the chief of the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP), Marko Kričak, “behaves like an SNS SS party division”, as the Serbian newspaper Danas reports. His reaction comes after representatives of the electoral list “Student List – Students Win” claimed that the police follow them physically and that among the followers was the UKP chief himself.

Manojlović assessed this as another indication of the “misuse of state institutions for party interest”, according to Danas’s reporting. “The persecution and intimidation of students by the UKP and the direct involvement of chief Marko Kričak are another proof that parts of the system are occupied by the mafia,” he said in his statement.

According to Manojlović, the problem is not limited to the police alone: in the prosecution, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and throughout the state, too, “there are people who serve the SNS mafia instead of Serbia”. He assessed that the current political conflict goes beyond the issue of relations between the government and the opposition and that it is a matter of a “citizens’ war against occupation”.

At today’s press conference, student Petar Živković, a Student List candidate, claimed that he and his colleagues are physically followed by the police, giving as an example the case outside the building where he lives, where he noticed several vehicles and people, among them the UKP chief. Manojlović’s accusation comes in the tense climate of the campaign for the snap parliamentary elections of 25 October, where the Student List is seen as the main rival of Aleksandar Vučić’s “United Serbia” list.