Serbian police deny opposition is under surveillance

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The Serbian Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) on Tuesday denied that it was keeping opposition leaders under surveillance.

Claims by (Alliance for Serbia leaders) Dragan Djilas and Bosko Obradovic that MUP personnel are wire-tapping and following opposition leaders are absolutely groundless, tendentious and incorrect,” Crime Police Department (UKP) chief Dejan Kovacevic is quoted as saying in a MUP statement released just hours after Djilas and Obradovic told media that they had received confirmation from the police that they were under surveillance.  

Kovacevic denied that the people whose photographs were shown by the opposition leaders were not MUP personnel. “The alleged surveillance order that they showed is not like any document in the ministry and this is a deliberate manipulation and attempt to discredit MUP personnel,” Kovacevic is quoted as saying.  

He said that the police can’t put anyone under surveillance without a court order and then only in line with the law. According to Kovacevic, none of the departments and sections of the MUP “can’t independently initiate or implement any special evidence-gathering activities”.  

“On behalf of all MUP personnel, I am asking the Alliance for Serbia politicans to stop abusing the police for their daily political interests, publicly lynch police officers who are doing their job in line with the law and are upsetting the public almost daily by voicing absolute untruths,” the statement quoted Kovacevic as saying.