The Secretary of the IWA anarcho-syndicalist international has been charged with international terrorism after an obscure group attacked the Greek Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
Ratibor Trivunac and five other members of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative Group Were told on 4th September that they would have to wait in prison for up to a month for their trial to start by judges.
The other five detainees were Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulovi´c, Sanja -Doki´c, Ivan Savi´c and Nikola Mitrovi´c. The six say they only became aware that the incident, in which members of the Black Elijah group threw Molotov cocktails before making their getaway, through media reports.
The group had condemned the action, while noting that no-one was hurt, by the time the police reached their doors. Nevertheless, they were subsequently hounded in the press as ringleaders of a hate campaign against the state. Activists working with the group say that the opportunity for the arrests has come as an unexpected boon for police, who have been struggling to deal with rising levels of dissent across the country.
Around 30,000 Serbs are currently in dispute and on strike, with radical elements seeing clashes with factory bosses, security forces, the police and the judiciary.
Speaking to a reporter for the CNT website in Spain, Ratibor said: “I can understand that if a large, bearded man is shown on film throwing a Molotov cocktail the police will immediately assume it’s me.”
