Photo_ TanjugIf the owner of Jovanjica can boast of anything, it is strong ties, known in the people as "legja". And how wide they are, is evidenced by the state defense of Koluvija and the severe crisis in the progressive leadership after his arrest.
Due to heavy use, the masking of the Jovanjic scandal by constantly calling for "the defense of Aleksandar Vučić and his family" has worn out. Threats addressed to journalists for nothing, Đuka's threats to the President of Serbia for nothing, playing an insulted young woman for nothing - the social life of Predrag Kolovje finally comes to the fore. And just as Jelena Zorić wrote in "Vremen".
The reader, of course, knows: this is Vučić's confession that BIA director Bata Gašić had contact with the first defendant in the Jovanjic case, but "without connection". Look at the miracles! It seems that in Serbia it is easier to get to the head of the Service than to a ceramicist or a plumber.
Also - and "just like that" - Koluvija was in contact with the Minister of Defense and, later, of the Interior - Aleksandar Vulin, the director of VOA - Zoran Stojković, the head of the Belgrade BIA center - Mirko Šker, the former director of Corridor - Zoran Babić, and is on the same plane with Vučić as a member of the state delegation...
What is true: if Jovanjica's boss can boast of anything, it is strong ties, known popularly as "back". That nothing is "nonsensical" is evidenced by the wholehearted support of Vučić and Dijana Hrkalović for Koluvija, and - because of his arrest - the opening of the biggest conflict at the top of the Serbian Progressive Party. Elem, Nebojši Stefanović's party comrades can pass over the purchased diplomas and the Krusik affair, but not over Jovanjica. There, by doing or not doing, he bit them in the heart and pocket. And the fact that he still figures at the top of the government clearly shows that he is also well versed in Koluvia's wonderful social life.
Bata Gašić, by the nature of his work, has contacts with different people. His subordinates, too. But Predrag Koluvija was not just anyone for them, but - as it turns out - a protected person. No relationship can be "untied" here. Because if it were otherwise, the process against the members of the MUP, BIA and VOA for their role in the protection and development of the marijuana plantation near Stara Pazova (Jovanjica II) would be approaching the end of the court, instead of never even starting.
The only thing that did not have a relationship with the owner of Jovanjica was the man who arrested him. That is why Koluvija's back guards are trying to criminalize the chief Slobodan Milenkovic at any cost. According to them, the real drug dealer is a policeman, and the accused is a planter beam a victim of the infernal plan of the dark forces.
Do Coluvia's midfielders know what they're doing? Do they have an iota of awareness that they are killing every remaining iota of trust in state institutions? And does it occur to them, even on the edge of their minds, what the consequences will be for Serbian society?
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