Stanko Krstin from Novi Sad addressed the Commissioner with a complaint against Nikola Aleksić, Director of the Ecological Movement of Novi Sad, for being discriminated on the grounds of ethnicity. He stated in his complaint that for quite some time Nikola Aleksić, as a Director of the Ecological Movement of Novi Sad, had been scaring the citizens of Novi Sad, telling them that Stanko Krstin worked for the Croatian Intelligence Service, and that he had been tasked with poisoning the citizens of Novi Sad. He also stated that Nikola Aleksić publicly expressed his intentions in a letter of the Ecological Movement addressed to the Union of Employers of Serbia on December 19, stating that the Union of Employers of Serbia had in its ranks Croatian staff, that the President of the Union was a Croatian councilor of the Croatian National Council in Vojvodina, that the mentioned Council had  not surely been established to spread Croatian culture and in order to successfully fight the unloyal competition in our own country, the Union of Employers of Serbia should clean its own ranks first . Director of the Ecological Movement of Novi Sad did not agree to mediation offered to him for the purpose of peaceful settlement of the arisen problem. He also did not want to comment on the complaint. During the proceedings it was established that the Director of the Ecological Movement of Novi Sad, Nikola Aleksić, sent a press release on October 7, 2014, and a petition to the Union of Employers of Serbia on December 19, 2014 in which he expressed his ideas and attitudes that are harassing and humiliating and offend the dignity of Stanko Krstin as well as other members of Croatian national minority.

The Commissioner for Protection of Equality has issued the opinion that the Director of the Ecological Movement  of Novi Sad, Nikola Aleksić, violated the provisions of the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination and gave him a recommendation to send a letter of apology to Stanko Krstin regarding the views presented in the text of press release and petition addressed to the Union of Employers of Serbia, to invite representatives of the Croatian National Council to the meeting in order to get informed about their activities and responsibilities and to refrain in the future from giving press statements insulting the dignity of the members of Croatian or any other minority.

Since Nikola Aleksić has not acted on the recommendation, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality, in accordance with the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination, hereby informs the public accordingly.