Petar Zivkovic claims he was followed, saw UKP chief Kricak
A law student says the same group has tailed him since September 25 and that he saw the Criminal Police Directorate chief outside his building on October 3-4. No ministry reply is on record.
Law student Petar Zivkovic said at a press conference of the student list on October 5, 2026, that the same group of people has been following him since September 25, and that on the night of October 3-4 he saw the head of the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP), Marko Kricak, outside his building. Neither the Interior Ministry (MUP) nor Kricak himself had responded to the claims as of the morning of October 6.
What Zivkovic says about the surveillance
According to Zivkovic, he and a colleague from the student campaign office noticed the same person following them at three locations in three parts of Belgrade starting September 25. Two days later, on September 29, he saw a person outside the office of the student list, and then spotted the same person three more times while sitting with his father in a cafe.
The next day, September 30, they noticed the same vehicle, with a man and a woman inside. On October 1, following someone’s report, his car was towed to a lot at Staro Sajmiste. Zivkovic says he was told there when the vehicle was lifted, but not when it entered the lot.
“After that I went there with my father. They could tell us when the vehicle was lifted, but they could not tell us when it entered the lot at Staro Sajmiste. We have good reason to suspect it had some intermediate stop on the way to Sajmiste, and that it is probably bugged now and that a GPS or something similar has been installed to track it,” Zivkovic said.
The night of October 3-4
Around half past midnight, Zivkovic left the office for home. Outside his building, he claims, he found three or four expensive cars and about ten people.
“I immediately became worried for my safety, and when I slowed the car down, I spotted at some distance the head of the Criminal Police Directorate, Marko Kricak, in front of the building, along with about ten people whom I recognized from the media as UKP officers,” the student said.
At the press conference he also showed a photograph of the vehicle outside the building, taken from the apartment by his mother.
Lawyer: visits to the office without a warrant
The attorney for the student and for those responsible at the student electoral office, Vladimir Tupanjac, said that two people who introduced themselves as UKP police officers came to the office twice, cited an oral warrant and announced a third visit. Zivkovic also claims that UKP officers from the economic crime unit twice tried to enter the office’s storeroom without a warrant, and that his colleagues have been stopped and ID-checked several times.
“What happened to Petar is the last straw. We do not understand what the police wanted to achieve, the police do not show up at citizens’ doors. This is the manner of some other groups from some other milieu. We call on the police to explain why they did this,” Tupanjac said.
On the visits to the office itself, the lawyer said the following:
“We have indications that there are people in the MUP who have put themselves at the service of the regime and who are trying to obstruct the electoral process. We have two, supposedly, UKP officers who did not even say on whose warrant they were coming to premises leased by a group of citizens. They said they did not want to say, that it was an oral warrant.”
Tupanjac added that after he gave a statement at the Stari Grad Police Station, a media lynching was launched against him. “The job of a lawyer is to defend the people from an evil government and for the people to be freed from fear. I will keep doing that job. I am not afraid,” he said.
Reactions
The leader of the Kreni-Promeni movement, Savo Manojlovic, reacted on October 5, after the press conference. “The surveillance and intimidation of students by the UKP and the direct involvement of chief Marko Kricak are one more proof that parts of the system have been occupied by the mafia. Kricak behaves like a party SS division of the SNS,” Manojlovic said. He added that “in the police, the prosecution, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the whole state there are people who serve the SNS mafia instead of the state of Serbia.”
The response of the MUP and of Kricak to the claims of the student, the lawyer and the opposition leader is not stated in the texts reviewed. Everything presented so far comes from Zivkovic and Tupanjac, and the people who came to the office, according to Tupanjac, told the students’ questions that they would come a third time.
