While Aleksandar Vučić’s regime increasingly adopts a posture of manufactured victimhood—claiming it is fighting an absurd, galactic “hybrid war”—its foot soldiers within the judicial apparatus are flexing their muscles to actively terrorize domestic critics. Chief among these regime enforcers is Miodrag Marković, Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor at the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office (VJT) in Belgrade.
In a chilling display of state intimidation broadcasted on the state-controlled public service media, Marković completely bypassed the rule of law. Entirely abandoning basic legal mechanisms like pre-investigations, formal inquiries, or indictments, he launched a sweeping threat to jail up to a million citizens, effectively acting as an autocrat’s judge, jury, and executioner.
Anatomy of a Regime Fixer: Marković’s Record of Selective Justice
The track record of Prosecutor Marković reads like a manual on how to sabotage judicial independence in service of a ruling party:
- Criminalizing Truth in the “Sonic Cannon” Scandal: To shield the state from backlash over aggressive crowd-control tactics, Marković accused the public of “fabricating” the regime’s use of acoustic weapons. Targeting civic organizers, investigative journalists, photographers, and even the medical personnel who treated injured demonstrators, Marković issued a blanket threat: “No one will get away. Every single person will be prosecuted.”
- The Milica Stojanović Cover-Up: Marković’s loyalty to the regime was cemented when he aggressively hijacked a case from a colleague to protect Milica Stojanović—a regime-aligned driver who rammed her car into a student during an environmental blockade. Marković sabotaged the case by downgrading an attempted murder charge to a minor misdemeanor, before funneling the file directly to President Vučić for a swift, corrupt presidential pardon, which Marković then publicly applauded.
- A Farce of Digital Incompetence: Marković first exposed his farce of “professionalism” in November 2024, when he refused to examine 40 vital video recordings showing brutal attacks on university students, engineering the laughably corrupt excuse that his computer speakers were broken.
Complete Immunity for the Regime’s Loyal Puppets
Despite an unprecedented wave of outrage from the legal community—including formal disciplinary filings by the Center for Judicial Research (CEPRIS) and over 200 independent judges and prosecutors—Marković remains completely untouchable.
The Verdict on Serbia’s Captured Judiciary: Marković’s career trajectory is a textbook symptom of Serbia’s captured state. No longer just a sidekick to Belgrade’s notoriously compliant Chief Prosecutor Nenad Stefanović, Marković has evolved into a premier instrument of executive tyranny. By prioritizing the intimidation of citizens over the prosecution of actual criminals, figures like Marković ensure that under the Vučić regime, the law is used exclusively as a weapon to protect the powerful and silence the public.
