Three Serbian organizations have announced plans to file a criminal complaint against President Aleksandar Vučić, Interior Minister Ivica Dačić and three other senior officials, accusing them of abuse of office and harming the interests of Serbs in Kosovo.
The Serbian National Council (SNV), the Serbian National Forum from Gračanica and the “Otadžbina” movement will submit the complaint on Monday, November 16, to the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade.
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The complaint also names parliamentary speaker Ana Brnabić, the director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo, Petar Petković, and the former leader of the Serb List, Goran Rakić.
According to the announcement published by the Serbian news portal KoSSev, the five officials are accused of exceeding their constitutional and legal powers, abusing their official positions and failing to perform their official duties.
The three organizations claim that the policies pursued by the leadership in Belgrade toward Kosovo have had serious consequences for the Serbian community and infringed on its rights.
The criminal complaint is expected to be submitted at 11:00 a.m. at the Palace of Justice in Belgrade. The organizations have also announced a press conference at which they will present the reasons and arguments behind the initiative.
The allegations center on Belgrade’s policy toward Kosovo, particularly its handling of Serbian institutions that operated in Kosovo as part of Serbia’s administrative system. The organizations hold political leaders in Belgrade partly responsible for the loss of these structures.
Kosovo’s authorities have carried out a series of operations to close institutions they consider parallel structures operating outside the country’s legal framework.
Since the beginning of 2024, three parallel municipal administrations have been closed in Peja, Istog and Klina, while five other institutions in northern Kosovo were closed on August 30 of the same year.
The operations continued on January 15, 2025, expanding to ten municipalities south of the Ibar River, where several parallel municipal administrations, post offices and tax offices operating under Serbian administration were closed. Kosovo’s government has described these structures as institutions that violated the constitutional order and laws of the Republic of Kosovo.
The plan to file a criminal complaint was first announced by the SNV on October 27, two days after Serbia’s parliamentary elections, when the organization welcomed the result achieved by the Students’ List.
At the time, the SNV said a group of experts was preparing documentation to establish Serbian leaders’ responsibility for policies toward Kosovo in recent years.
The organization had accused Vučić and Dačić in particular of contributing to the dismantling of numerous Serbian state institutions in Kosovo during nearly 15 years in power. In its statement, the SNV even compared the political impact of these actions to NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999.
The complaint was initially expected to be submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, but the latest announcement identified the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade as the institution that will receive it.
So far, the three organizations have neither published the full text of the complaint nor specified the particular actions of which each of the five officials is accused. Explanations are expected at the press conference following the submission of the documentation.
