The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection estimates that the reply of Belgrade's mayor to his call to provide the public with the relevant information by the city authorities about the demolition of 1,000 square meters of business premises in Belgrade's Savamala district in the night of 25 April by masked persons who deprived the citizens of the freedom of movement on this occasion, took away their mobile phones and other movable objects – completely inadequate to the obligations that the city officials have towards the public, i.e., towards the citizens of Belgrade and Serbia.

It is not acceptable that regarding the event of such kind and such consequences the city authorities consider it sufficient to inform the public that they do not know anything, except that "the relevant city services had not taken part".

It is particularly unacceptable that, with regard to the right of the public to dispose of all information on that disagreeable event, the mayor directed the Commissioner to 'refer to the competent bodies'.

The Commissioner, of course, spoke to the Minister of Interior Affairs and the State Prosecutor and was reassured that they would take all measures within their competences to solve the case concerned. However, independently of the call made by the Commissioner and of what the Ministry of Interior and the Prosecution would undertake, the city officials should be aware of the fact that they owe the citizens, in the name of whom they exert powers and dispose of the communal police, far more information than that they 'did not take part' in this extremely worrying event, both from the standpoint of legality and the standpoint of human rights.