They will do it that way, in states that are still states, and not far-fetched teams in power. He will, namely, yes Justice do your job whether one likes it or not.
In states that are states, it is true that the executive power does not jump on its hind legs and talk about "coup d'étatBut, well, you have to start somewhere.
It is still too early to say whether the prosecution in Serbia has finally started to do its job, freeing itself from the omnipotence of Aleksandar Vučić, and whether this "omnipotence" still exists. But it is not too early to notice a few things.
Ultimately it's about money.
For exactly nine months since the fall of the canopy, there has been a general rebellion of students and people led by the conviction that people in Novi Sad were not crushed by a "terrible tragedy" or the alleged mistakes of Tito's architects, but by corruption. That someone got fat for the blunder that sent innocent people to the grave.
While there were protests, blockades, pumping across Serbia, the two prosecutor's offices - the one in Novi Sad and the one in Belgrade - seemed to be working against each other. The detention and release of several high-ranking officials could have looked like an alibi, yes calm the people, just like the resignation of the Government.
All that time it was about concrete and reinforcement, anchors and weights, tons of project documentation, the understanding of which requires at least a degree from a construction faculty. And all that time it was not about the elephant in the room - about corruption.
Now, with great delay, that die has finally been rolled. They are on the wallpaper old acquaintances like Goran Vesić, who ended up in the hospital again. But also Tomislav Momirović, Vesić's predecessor as minister-builder, who has been bypassed until now and, after his forced resignation, is deeply illegal.
The case was taken over by the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, and this time it is about money. Or, as it is said in law, "abuse of official position".
Rumors about the "coup d'état"
In states that are states, the matter would take its course, initial suspicions would not be the same as an indictment, and an indictment would not be the same as a verdict. Citizens could, confident in the calm hand of the judiciary, wait for final verdicts.
It is not like that in Serbia. The regime's domestic media, primarily Informer, are reporting on the alleged "prosecutorial coup" after weeks of preparing the ground by slandering the first prosecutor for organized crime, Mladen Nenadić.
Their propaganda line is now clear - Nenadić, otherwise sleepy and inconspicuous Zagorka Dolovac, and other prosecutors received alleged directives and support from the West. They arrest people because of some pointless annexes and in the justice of God. Maybe because the evil West is dealing with the Chinese who did the work in Novi Sad.
When he told all this in the program, the editor-in-chief of Informer, Dragan J. Vučićević, said literally: "Maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but I'm not exaggerating" and then continued about the "coup".
But, the propaganda excursion into great geopolitics, color revolutions, treachery and coups has already been seen so many times. Everyone googled that.
Showdown to the end
Some "Vremen" sources are whispering that the arrests from this Friday are not a drama, but an authentic matter. That the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime is doing its job conscientiously. And that it won't stop here.
Where is the top of that pyramid? Many would swear that it was in the cabinet of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić himself, from where, even until now - this has been irrefutably proven - they illegally pulled the strings of large projects, chased engineers with a whip to sign incomplete documents and made sure that things were done as quickly as possible. where to.
After the regime faced an unprecedented rebellion and an unsuspected drop in ratings in the past months - so much so that it clearly has to fabricate opinion polls - it is now faced with previously unimaginable behavior by the institutions of the system. Prosecutors doing their job without an executive directive, it's a spectacle.
That is why the regime's response will be fierce and, probably, not only propaganda. "Either us, or them," predicts Vučićević on Informer. At least he seems to be right there.
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