Overview of the week

06.October 2023 Philip Schwarm

Jovanjica and Banjska: Duo with a helmsman

Because of Predrag Koluvija and Milan Radoičić, the government in any orderly country would fall and never rise again. And again - if in such countries "Hadži" Vulin and Bata Gašić would become what they are in Serbia

Politics

12.July 2023 MJ

Gašić and Čadež in t-shirts that say "I'm a bot too"

The T-shirts arrive a day after an organized action by members of the Serbian Progressive Party, which included the publication of an illustration with the inscription "I love Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party the most in the world. Yes, I am an SNS bot."

State and organized crime

16.June 2023 BIRN

Inspector Mitić's testimony: "Jovanjica" worked under the auspices of the state

Inspector Dušan Mitić of the Belgrade Police Narcotics Control Department testified before the Special Court about the "abnormal" pressure to release "Jovanjica". The head of the BIA at the time, and the current minister of the interior, Bratislav Gašić, was in direct contact with the people who ran the largest marijuana plantation in Europe.

This situation

17.May 2023. Philip Schwarm

The stench of rot, manure and gunpowder

Why does the regime have to dehumanize dissenters and drive the people crazy by spreading social pathology, paranoia and crazy conspiracy theories? What is the basis of Vučić's attempt to shift the public's attention to the political field, and how does he get away with it? Why the fight against violence has become inseparable from the fight for fair and honest elections

Comment

01.November 2022 Jovana Gligorijevic

Bratislav Gašić: Minister for kneeling in the body for gender equality

"Bata Santos" will be a member of the Government of Serbia's Coordinating Body for Gender Equality, a man who, as Minister of Defense, publicly said in 2015 that he "likes female journalists who kneel easily". That cost him a ministerial post, but that's why he became the head of the BIA, only to return to the government in style as the minister of internal affairs.

Portrait of a contemporary - Bratislav Bata Gašić

14.April 2021. Nedim Sejdinovic

A man who knows how to keep secrets

The Crik Research Center announced that in one of the conversations that the police eavesdropped on, a member of the criminal group Zoran Jotić Jotka from Kruševla stated that Jotić had no reason to be afraid because "Gašić is at his place", which is a slang term for someone who is on someone's payroll. The head of the BIA refused to answer the journalist's question about whether and what kind of relationship he has with this Kruševac mobster. However, this is not the first time that Gašić's name is next to Jotka's. Allegedly, in the nineties, Jotka's team tried to extort Gašić. Whether he didn't want to pay the racket or didn't pay enough, a fire was just started under his jeep. Gašić was questioned before the Special Court for Organized Crime regarding the incident, but then he stated that he did not know about the existence of the "famous" Jotka criminal group. He did not even recognize the person accused of setting the car on fire