Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has announced that he will pardon a young woman accused of attempted murder after she ran over a student with her car during a protest blockade in Belgrade in January.

“She did nothing to deserve this accusation. And it is horrifying to me that as a president who has not signed a single pardon in nine years, I now have to correct the injustices caused by the prosecution and the court,” Vučić said in an interview with Informer TV on July 16.

He specified that he would continue with such actions because, in his opinion, “the injustice is obvious.”

The incident occurred on January 24, during mass civil protests in Belgrade. At that time, a 25-year-old student from the Faculty of Agriculture was injured after a young woman drove her car into a group of students.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the suspect, Milica S. initially stopped her car because of the crowd, but then unexpectedly, demonstratively and aggressively drove off at high speed towards the group of students standing in front of her car. | BGNES