The Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, said that when he was Minister of the Interior and Director of the Security and Information Agency (BIA), he made lists of those who are not welcome in Serbia.

“I made the lists as the Minister of Police and director of the BIA, based on the law and conscience. I regret that I have not devoted myself more to them, because I am seeing how many vile people have been forgotten. [President of Serbia] Aleksandar Vučić was not asked and should not have been asked about this,” Vulin said through a statement published on the website of his party, the Socialist Movement, Radio Free Europe’s Balkan Service reports.

His comments come in the wake of the controversy in the opinion of Serbia, after the Croatian singer, Severina Vuckovic, was detained for several hours at the border with Serbia, because she was on the “control list”.

Vulin said that there are people on the list who have sung or spoken about Serbia in a bad context.

“In the lists that I submitted to the competent bodies, there were foreign citizens who came to Serbia to participate in violent protests, but also drug lords – from Sarajevo to Pristina and Skopje,” said Vulin.

He added that the list for “mandatory ban and increased control” also included MPs from the Assembly of Montenegro, who voted for Serbia as genocidal.

Singer Severina Vuckovic was released after a few hours at the border, on August 25, but then did not enter Serbia.

“They asked me what I think about Srebrenica, about [operation] Storm, why I supported the demonstrations against the extraction of lithium…”, among other things Vuckovic said after the incident.