The news of the arrest of the famous director, screenwriter and acting teacher Miroslav Mika Aleksic has hit Serbia like a bombshell.
Three young women who attended his prestigious acting school in Belgrade have alleged that he raped or sexually harassed them.
The 68-year-old denied the accusations.
Aleksic is accused of having committed eight felonies of rape and seven prohibited sexual acts since 2008.
Prosecutors have not yet charged him.
Serbian actress Milena Radulovic made the allegations in the Serbian daily Blic, last weekend.
“I was a student in Mika Aleksic’s school for six years, when he first raped me, she said in the interview. I was 17. It didn t happen only once. It was repeated. Mika made sure that it happened during the class, in the room next to the one where the other students were, or in the period when work would intensify because of the entrance exam for the Faculty for Dramatic Arts. He left no room for someone to suspect anything terrible was hap