"Before they were released for the weekend, now they are released right in front of the cameras" - this is the line of the song that could most succinctly describe the sudden appearance of the public presentation of the defense of the accused of influence peddling, former State Secretary of Police Dijana Hrkalović.
After six months behind bars and two months of house arrest, it seems that she has already gotten so used to the atmosphere there that even in freedom she lives according to the prison rules: "Accuse or you will be accused".
"President Vučić is my idol. Minister Stefanović was eavesdropping on him, and I knew it and participated in it, but until now I remained silent and refused the polygraph, because I was protecting the minister. Here, I said and cleansed my soul," Dijana Hrkalović repeated during her performance on "Sretne TV"; dressed in black, in a raised voice, with strong gesticulations and loud nose blowing, as if she had caught a severe allergic sneeze or was preparing Aca Lucas for a performance.
This cleansing of the soul, while hanging over her head the five years in prison that the prosecution is asking for, Hrkalović started a few days earlier, in an interview for a pro-regime portal, which likes to present itself as objective.
Then, in a white suit, while her eyes were hidden by artificial eyelashes and her smile revealed her artificial teeth, she regretfully claimed that she was convinced that it was a case of eavesdropping on Vučić and his family while they were talking to friends and acquaintances, of whom, as she said, most illegally wiretapped, that is, that it was part of an agreement between the president of the state and the former police minister, current military officer Nebojša Stefanović, and all for the purpose of counterintelligence protection.
This young, but already former, operative seems to have never learned that the counterintelligence protection of the president is not carried out by the police, but rather by the Security Information Agency.
Kanda didn't even mind illegally eavesdropping on dozens of people as long as she thought it was according to her leader's will. And what kind of man does Hrkalović think Vučić is? She doesn't mind if, in dealings with the then "first ear of the Serbian police", he listens a little to the conversations of people close to him? Or does it not bother her as long as someone is called a minister or president?
The experiences of many have shown that "those who fight against Diana will suffer from Diana." So, it would not be a surprise if, after the change of government, we watch Diana on some new pro-regime or foreign TV. It is possible that then she could talk about new idols and how, as a high-ranking police official, she was a political victim of Aleksandar Vučić's regime.
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