Prosecutors open case on police over Sapic's weapons

The Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade said today, October 14, that it has opened a separate case to determine whether there are grounds to suspect that officers of the New Belgrade Police Station committed a criminal offense prosecuted ex officio. The trigger is the receipt for the temporarily seized weapons of Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic: the time written on it does not match the chronology in the official police report.

What did the prosecutors find on the receipt?

According to the New Belgrade station’s report of September 29, Sapic was released from the station after the legally prescribed period expired. He then voluntarily handed over, at his home address and under police escort, firearms he owned legally. There are two pieces, and he holds permits for both. The report also says the weapons were seized under the Law on Police, not as an instrument of the criminal offense the prosecutors are handling.

The prosecutor in charge, the statement says, was never informed that Sapic had any weapon on him during the incident or at the station. When reports of contradictions over the time of the seizure appeared in public, the prosecutor contacted the officers at the station. That was when a photograph of the receipt first surfaced. It had not been attached to the report. The statement says Sapic was issued a “receipt for temporarily seized items,” and the prosecutors’ conclusion reads:

“Review of the submitted photograph of the receipt established that the time of the temporary seizure of the firearms indicated on the receipt does not match the chronology of events given in the official police report, which established the existence of a discrepancy between two official documents.”

In the parts reported by the media, the statement does not say what time is written on the receipt, and it does not conclude when and where the weapons were actually seized. It only notes that the two documents disagree and that this calls for further checks of their accuracy and authenticity. The prosecutors announce: “The Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade will also inform the Ministry of Interior, Internal Control Sector, about the opening of the case, so that they can take the actions within their jurisdiction.”

How did the case come about?

The starting point is the event of September 28, 2026, involving Sapic and Tatjana Micic, a city councilor from the Kreni-Promeni movement. Micic said that same evening that Sapic had physically attacked her, and he denied it. The Third Office is handling the case on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and violent behavior. Sapic and Micic, as the injured party, were questioned on October 2. At a press conference Sapic denied attacking the councilor. He said he had been verbally and physically attacked, that he then started to defend himself, and that he “did not touch the person in question” but only moved her away from him.

The weapons question was raised by the Kreni-Promeni movement, which over the past two days claimed that police took two pistols he was carrying from Sapic on the evening of the incident, adding details on models and calibers. The prosecutors responded yesterday that they had been told Sapic had no weapon on him during the event and handed over the two pieces only at his home address. Today the same office speaks of a discrepancy between two official documents and opens a case that concerns the officers themselves.

What do the parties say?

Nikola Tadic, the Kreni-Promeni movement’s lawyer and the attorney for the Micic family, told Insajder that investigative steps are being taken, but slowly:

“We are waiting for the Emergency Center to submit all the medical documentation on the prosecutors’ order. We handed over everything we had, so, the complete file. However, given that there have been problems, the prosecutors also asked the Clinical Center to submit CDs with the X-ray and CT scans, which we also included in our request to have submitted.”

Tadic says Tatjana Micic suffered grievous bodily injuries, a fracture of the left nasal bone and the upper jaw, that she has since had surgery and is receiving therapy. He accuses the Interior Ministry and the Emergency Center of obstruction. Sapic’s lawyer, Edvin Prelic, said the prosecutors are conducting proceedings on a criminal complaint filed by the Kreni-Promeni movement, “and whether the Prosecutor’s Office will charge, that is, prosecute before a court, Mr. Aleksandar Sapic, or perhaps Mrs. Tatjana Micic and her husband for some other criminal offenses prosecuted ex officio, the Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade will only make a decision on that.” In the sources we reviewed, there is no reaction from the Interior Ministry or the New Belgrade officers to today’s statement.

What happens next?

So far in the proceedings the prosecutor has ordered police to obtain video recordings from all available surveillance cameras that could have captured the event. The Emergency Center of the University Clinical Center of Serbia is being asked for complete medical records on all participants, and for Micic again. The questioning of her husband, Ilija Micic, as a witness is scheduled for mid-November.

The political track runs on a different rail. An extraordinary session of the Belgrade City Assembly on dismissing Sapic, called at the request of 41 opposition councilors, was not held yesterday for lack of a quorum. The speaker of the city parliament, Nikola Nikodijevic, said the session will resume on November 23 at 10 a.m.