Serbia's State Of Exit Festival Unaffected By Arrests

Organisers of Serbia's State Of Exit music festival confirmed this week that July's event is going ahead as planned, despite the recent arrest of the event's two main promoters for alleged accounting irregularities.

Exit founder Dusan Kovacevic and managing director Bojan Boskovic were held in jail without charge for several days, a move Exit management suggested was politically motivated.

"The campaign is conducted by the same forces which have driven young people out of the country, who are against reforms and a European Serbia and want to lead the country back into isolation," they said.

"Every year they say that the festival will fail, but Exit is one of the few events in Serbia which has found a place on the cultural map of Europe."

Exit's UK chief Paxton Talbot chatted to Skrufff again this week and confirmed that both of his Serbian colleagues are now out of jail and back at work organising the massive event.

"They haven't been charged with anything and there is going to be a formal police investigation into what's happened, which as festival organisers we welcome because there's nothing to hide," said Paxton, 'it's all systems go."
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