Stara Pazova man reported for harassing girls from his car
Police say M. B., 37, drove past underage girls and touched them inappropriately. The criminal complaint goes to the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Stara Pazova.
A man suspected of driving past underage girls in Stara Pazova and touching them inappropriately as he passed has been identified, and police are filing a criminal complaint against him. The suspect is M. B., 37, and the complaint goes to the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Stara Pazova.
The statement came from the Sremska Mitrovica Police Directorate on Friday, July 31, 2026, at around 9:44 a.m. Serbia’s Interior Ministry (MUP) says there are grounds to suspect the man committed the offence of sexual harassment.
How police found him
Officers in Stara Pazova say the name came out of operational work, meaning field checks and gathered information, rather than a report that handed them the driver’s identity straight away.
“Thanks to the operational work of police in Stara Pazova, the suspect was quickly identified,” the Interior Ministry said in its statement.
Police did not say how many girls the car passed. There is no word on which part of the municipality this happened in, or how long it went on before the case reached officers. The girls are not named, as is standard in cases of this kind.
What counts as sexual harassment in Serbia?
The offence entered the Criminal Code through amendments that took effect on June 1, 2017, as Article 182a. The law defines it as verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct that violates a person’s dignity in the sphere of sexual life and causes fear or creates a hostile, degrading or offensive environment.
The basic form carries a fine or up to six months in prison. When the injured party is a minor, the penalty rises to three months to three years. The gap is not only in sentencing. For the basic form, prosecution starts on the motion of the injured party, while a case involving a minor is prosecuted ex officio, whether or not the family asks for it.
From complaint to prosecutor
M. B. was not detained. The complaint is being filed under regular procedure, so prosecutors in Stara Pazova will decide the next step without any custody order in place.
Until a final verdict, he is a suspect, and a police complaint does not establish guilt. What comes next is the prosecutor’s call: an indictment proposal, a request for more evidence, or dismissal of the complaint.
One missing detail is likely to shape the legal qualification, and that is the age of the girls. If any of them is under 14, prosecutors can weigh a different article than the one police cited, because the Criminal Code treats offences against the sexual freedom of children more severely than those against minors in general.
