A famous Serbian theater teacher and the director of the private drama school, The Thing of the Heart has been charged with "four rapes" as confirmed by the Belgrade prosecutor's office.
Miroslav Aleksic, said Mika, 68, is also suspected of other sexual abuses committed against seven women, the judicial institution said.
The man faces a fifteen-year prison sentence. The prosecution also recommended that the future trial take place behind closed doors in order to “
protect the privacy of participants
”. The indictment must now be confirmed by the Higher Court in Belgrade.
On January 17, 2021, actress Milena Radulovic, 25, accused Miroslav Aleksic of rape while she was underage, and of abuse against other students at the prestigious school where he taught. She had said to come out of the silence to avoid other victims. “
We watched Mika Aleksic take the girls to a room next to ours and linger there for a long time. One day it was my turn. He was a manipulator who established a hold on the students by playing the father figure
,
”
says Milena Radulovic to the newspaper Blic, quoted by
Courrier international
.
The act of this actress was followed by other alleged victims.
Miroslav Aleksic, who is in pre-trial detention, denies all these accusations.
But since this complaint, in Serbia and throughout the region, a wave of protests has surged against sexual violence and the culture of silence in the entertainment world and academia.
A liberation of speech which does not only target this professor.
On March 23, actress Danijela Stajnfeld, 37, accused one of her colleagues and ex-Minister of Culture, the famous actor Branislav Lecic, 65, of having raped him in 2012.