Prosecutor Vukasin Vujicic's Car Torched in Valjevo
Prosecutor Vukasin Vujicic's car burned overnight between August 15 and 16 outside the building where he lives in Valjevo. Students and high schoolers are demanding an urgent, impartial investigation.
The car belonging to public prosecutor Vukasin Vujicic burned overnight between August 15 and 16 outside the building in Valjevo where he lives. Students and high schoolers from Valjevo were the first to report the fire, and the local news site Ozonpress said the flames broke out shortly after 1 a.m.
No arrest had been reported as of the first reports, and no motive has been confirmed. Questions about the case were sent to the Valjevo Police Department, but no response had arrived by the following morning. No official statement on the fire had been issued at that point.
Only Signature from the Valjevo Prosecutor’s Office
Vujicic is the only one of the nine public prosecutors at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo who signed the joint statement issued by judges and prosecutors in March 2025, which condemned pressure from the executive branch on the judiciary. The statement followed a remark by the president of the republic that “prosecutors who fail to protect law and order will be replaced.” By the time it was published, 381 judges and prosecutors had signed it, and the number of signatories kept growing afterward.
The list of signatories was public. It showed which prosecutor’s office or court each name came from, and from the Valjevo Basic Prosecutor’s Office there was exactly one name on it.
Vujicic is originally from Valjevo. Before he was transferred to the Valjevo prosecutor’s office, he worked as a public prosecutor in Uzice.
Students and High Schoolers Demand an Investigation
Students and high schoolers from Valjevo issued a statement of support for the prosecutor. They called on state authorities for an urgent, impartial investigation, for those responsible to be identified, and for legal consequences to follow. Their statement said the fire had been preceded by a targeting campaign against the prosecutor.
“After prolonged threats and targeting, what followed was exactly what they had warned about,” the Valjevo students and high schoolers said.
That assessment is, for now, a claim made by the signatories of the statement and has not been confirmed by any finding from the relevant authorities. Whether the fire was deliberately set, and who is responsible, can only be established by the proceedings now underway with the police and the prosecutor’s office.
What Is Happening With the August 2025 Case?
The car burned one day after the anniversary of the night that gave rise to the ongoing case in Valjevo over police violence, the night between August 14 and 15, 2025. That case has since been moved out of the city where it originated.
The timeline is short and verifiable:
- On October 10, 2025, 27 injured parties filed criminal complaints against 28 police officers, including the chief of the Valjevo Police Department, as well as officers from stations in Mionica, Ljig, Ub, Osecina, Prijepolje, Priboj and Uzice
- On May 20, 2026, jurisdiction over the case was taken over by the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime
- By the end of July 2026, that office had interviewed 25 of the injured parties
According to the attorneys representing the injured parties, the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo took no effective action before the case was taken away from it. Srpske novine has previously reported on the anniversary of the Valjevo protest and on the fact that no indictment has yet been filed.
Why This Is Political, Not Just a Crime Report
Setting a vehicle on fire is a criminal offense, and it falls to the police to investigate. What pulls this case into politics is the identity of the car’s owner: a holder of public prosecutorial office who publicly backed a statement directed at the executive branch, and who did so alone within his own office.
That is why the bar for how seriously the state responds is narrower here than usual. It will not be measured by statements of support, but by whether proceedings are opened, under which criminal offense, and within what timeframe.
The next concrete piece of information will be the Valjevo Police Department’s answer to whether an on-site investigation was carried out and what it found. Until then, only this much is certain: the car belonging to a public prosecutor burned overnight outside the building where he lives.
