Kupinovo Student Still Waiting for Police Call

Student Jovan Milovac, who stood in front of a dump truck bearing the sign “Serbia Wins” in Kupinovo on August 12, says that four days later no one from the police or the prosecution has called him. The truck was heading toward the student movement’s stand in the village, part of Pecinci municipality, and stopped just short of him. A report was filed the same day at the police station in Pecinci.

“We reported the incident at the police station in Pecinci, and no one has contacted me since,” Milovac said.

Exactly that much time passed between the filing of the report and his statement: three days, and not a single call. For a case involving a marked vehicle, a license plate, multiple eyewitnesses, and footage circulating on social media, that fact alone says something about how quickly the authorities have responded.

What Is Known About the Vehicle and Driver

According to information gathered by students and footage posted on social media, the vehicle is a dump truck with the license plate RU 152-VJ and the “Serbia Wins” slogan painted on it. The man behind the wheel identified himself as the owner of a company called “Zabac” and as the owner of the truck itself.

Students learned the man’s name from Kupinovo residents but have decided not to release it for now and not to comment on what they have found. They say the process of gathering information about the driver and the circumstances of the incident is ongoing.

Milovac says the incident did not end with the truck. According to him, the driver also verbally threatened some of the female students who were at the stand that day.

“He didn’t really threaten me personally, aside from what he did with the truck, but he verbally threatened my colleagues. So we’ll see whether we file this jointly or if everyone reports it separately,” Milovac said.

That raises the number of possible victims from the same event, and with it the number of reports that could end up at the same police station.

Silence From the Authorities

We reported on this incident on the day it happened, when the heavy vehicle approached the student stand in Kupinovo. What has changed since then is not the substance of the story but how long it has dragged on.

The Interior Ministry (MUP) did not respond to a press inquiry about whether any procedure has been launched in connection with the case. Neither the police nor the prosecution has said whether anyone has been questioned, whether the vehicle has been identified by its plate, or whether the driver has been called in for an interview.

The silence of institutions in cases like this carries its own political weight, independent of the legal outcome. Student movement stands across Vojvodina and Serbia have, in recent months, become the place where the two sides of a divided public most directly meet. Every incident at such a stand becomes a test of how quickly the state responds when one side is the one filing the complaint.

What Happens Next

Milovac said he plans to discuss further steps with a lawyer and with the colleagues who were with him at the stand that day.

“I need to see what my lawyer says, and talk with the colleagues who were there with me that day, about whether we take joint action or act individually,” Milovac said.

Two paths are open, then. One runs through the report already filed and depends entirely on whether the authorities respond. The other depends on the students themselves, and on whether the threats made against the female students turn into separate reports of their own.

The first measurable sign that the case is moving at all would be a call for questioning. As of August 16, that call had not come.