Milosevic son could face beating charge
The son of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic could face prosecution over the alleged beating of a student activist last year.
The Beta news agency said prosecutors in the Serb city of Pozarevac are acting upon a complaint by Zoran Milovanovic, a member of the student group Otpor.
Milovanic alleged he was beaten severely last March in a scuffle involving Marko Milosevic and his associates.
The incident took place while Milosevic was still in power and conducted a campaign of repression against opponents, particularly against the pro-democracy Otpor organisation that eventually played a key role in toppling him in October.
On March 7, the president’s son living at the time in his parents’ hometown of Pozarevac allegedly beat Milovanovic to punish him for his active opposition to Milosevic’s rule.
After the incident, the authorities accused the victim of trying to hurt the president’s son. Marko Milosevic fled the country in the last days of his father’s rule and is believed living somewhere in Russia.
The new, pro-democracy authorities have been preparing evidence and initiating proceedings to punish key figures of the past regime.
