Prime Minister of Croatia Andrej Plenkovic stated at the Bled Strategic Forum that "the allegedly arrested Croatian spy in Belgrade like a Yeti" and that no one knows who he is.
"We would like to know who that spy is." "Neither the embassy, nor the minister, nor the Security Intelligence Agency know that," Plenković said.
Plenković stated that an official bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Miloš Vučević, is not planned in Bled, but that he hopes to meet him informally.
On the occasion of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Serbia last week, Plenković said that the French "obviously had their own commercial interest there."
Plenković assessed that Macron visited Serbia wanting to attract Belgrade to Europe, but that he came across a statement that Serbia will remain non-compliant with the foreign and security policy of the European Union, that is, that it will not impose sanctions on Russia.
Last week it was announced that a "Croatian spy" was arrested in the Belgrade area, but the official Zagreb still does not know who it is.
What is even more strange is that not even the public in Serbia knows who it is.
On July 26, the pro-government Večernje Novosti announced that the Security and Information Agency (BIA) in cooperation with other competent state authorities in Belgrade conducted a "counterintelligence operation to arrest a Croatian spy."
It was stated that this action was the result of several months of operational work by the BIA and "the continuation of the suppression of espionage and destructive-subversive activities of the Croatian intelligence and security service SOA".
On that occasion, criminologist Dobrivoje Radovanović pointed out for "Vreme" that "such behavior, in terms of publishing such unverified information, is unusual for democratic, orderly countries where laws and the Constitution are respected."
"In such countries, it is extremely unusual to publish news that a spy has been arrested, but it is not the first time that such news has been published in Serbia," said Radovanović at the time.
He also pointed out that "the most important thing is to arrest the spies in silence."".
"If you arrest him and publish it, it means that you admit that you did a bad job as soon as the spies entered your country and are working in the country." It turns out that the intelligence services were not doing their job well. That's why he keeps quiet, arrests and prosecutes, or agrees on exchange or extradition," explained Radovanović.
Source: FoNet
