Vucic: No Surrender shirt, "Serbia" chant Nedeljkovic's only sin

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday received Nikola Nedeljkovic, who has spent six months in a Pristina prison after being arrested at Gazimestan in June.

Vucic thanked Nedeljkovic for his attitude to his country and his people and offered him a job.

"Nikola likes to work with technologies and is studying at the Belgrade Business School," Vucic said.

"We have two offers for you: do you want to engage in humanitarian work at the Office for Kosovo-Metohija while studying, or do you want to work at the Ministry for Telecommunications?" he asked Nedeljkovic.

"You will be a boost to the country - thank you again, son, for having a hard Serb head," Vucic said, noting that Nedeljkovic had told him he had not been afraid because he had known he had not done anything.

"Imagine the horrible sin - a footage showed him chanting 'Serbia' and wearing a No Surrender shirt," Vucic noted ironically.

Nedeljkovic, a 20-year-old Belgrader, was arrested in the Gazimestan memorial complex near Pristina after a St Vitus's Day commemoration on June 28.

He was charged with "inciting ethnic hatred and intolerance" and sentenced to eight months in prison by a Pristina Basic Court, but an appeals court reduced the sentence earlier this month.

He was released two days ago.