Attacked Serbian Protester Vows To Sue Vucic

A Serbian school teacher, Marko Radosavljevic, who was attacked by private security at a Progressive Party rally during Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's swearing-in ceremony, said he will sue the President for defamation for potentionally leading the public to believe that he is a drunkard.

"It'll set a precedent, but it seems like an ordinary citizen will have to sue the President himself for defamation! This [country] is bedlam, I tell you," Radosavljevic wrote on his Facebook profile, after Vucic showed a photo of him in public taking a swig out of a bottle.

At a press conference last Thursday Vucic condemned the incidents that happened during the ceremony, but at the same time accused protesters of wanting to cause a "massacre".

He showed a photo of Radosavljevic apparently drinking out of a bottle, and claimed that the man was trying to cause the "gravest incidents" at the rally.

"This is one of the DOS thugs," Vucic said, referring to the former Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition that overthrew Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 1999.

However, it is clear from Radosavljevic's Faceboook profile that the photo was taken during a theatre play in which he was acting.

Radosavljevic himself said that Vucic was "lying without scruples" about him, and using a photo of him playing the role of a drunkard.

"This is definitive proof that this man [Vucic], who is the head of state, with almost absolute power, has a few screws loose!" he wrote on Facebook after the press conference.

A day before Vucic showed his photo, Radosavljevic was targeted by pro-government tabloids. The daily Informer, which is close to Vucic, published six of his private pictures, including the one that Vucic showed the...