After the articles of the "New York Times" and "The Guardian" about whether there is, and if there is, what kind of connection there is between the president of Serbia and the leading criminal groups and drug clans, now the German Tageschau addressed the same topic.
This spring, the world's leading media seriously began to deal with the connection between the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the criminal clan of Veljko Belivuk, as well as the growing influence of hooliganism on security in the country.
After the articles of the "New York Times" and "The Guardian", now the news program of the first program of the German public service was dealing with Aleksandar Vučić and criminal groups in Serbia.
The German Tageschau thus opened the text by reminding that the trial of Veljko Belivuk's clan, who, as they write, committed the most monstrous crimes in the country, is in progress in Serbia.
The connections reach all the way to the top of the state.
"The trial of a criminal group in Belgrade keeps the citizens of Serbia in suspense. It is about hooligans who work for powerful drug clans and carry out brutal murders. The connections, as things stand, reach the top of the state. In front of the building of the Special Court for Organized Crime in Belgrade, almost every week, black police vehicles rush by. The accused enter the building through the back entrance. A total of 31 men were charged with crimes such as murder, drug possession, kidnapping and arms trafficking," writes Tageschau.
The German public service reminds that Partizan's hooligans are among the most brutal in Europe.
"The stadium serves as a center for drugs and a place for recruiting new gang members. Now you are being charged with several brutal murders," the Germans write, reminding the local public that at the beginning of 2021, the knot began to unravel when the criminal group's encrypted messages via "Sky" were intercepted and decoded. They found gruesome photos of mutilated corpses in their phones. The evidence led to a house in Ritopek, a village near Belgrade, where there was a hidden room that could only be reached through a hole in the wall. In it, among other things, there is also a meat grinder, where this gang destroyed the remains of the murdered. The trial in Belgrade now reveals the connections of this group with politics. Investigative journalist Stevan Dojčinović has been following the process against the clan from the beginning. During the trial, Belivuk explained that 'his role was to support the demonstrations for Aleksandar Vučić and to disrupt the protests of the opposition,'” Dojčinović told Tageschau.
Darko Vojinovic/APArrest: Veljko Belivuk
Policeman at the head of the clan
The policeman Nenad Vučković, another high-ranking representative of hooligans, also played a significant role in the clan. One photo shows him posing with alleged serial killer Belyvuk. However, that policeman did not independently control the group, everything went much more towards the top, claims Dojčinović.
In the leaked communication between Belivuk and the policeman, which the journalists had access to, Belivuk writes that he is not afraid of anything and that he is ready. The policeman replies that he knows it, as well as the "boss" and the "big boss". For Dojčinović, it is clear that the "boss" is former Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović, and the "big boss" is President Vučić.
Inquiries to the president remained unanswered. He also did not want to comment on the accusations against his son Danilo. In one photo, Danilo Vučić poses in an embrace with one of Belivuk's close associates, who is known to the police as a member of the clan.
The German Tageschau then emphasizes that the Serbian journalist Brankica Stanković knows the political scene and its happenings very well.
Sniper for Serbian journalist
In her statement, she confirms that politics uses a well-organized hooligan scene.
"They are organized and very suitable for any abuse. They turn into angry packs that obey every call of the power structures, no matter what it is," says Stanković.
Due to her commentary and research into the hooligan scene in Serbia since 2009, Stanković had to receive a constant police escort, the German media emphasizes.
At the match between Partizan and Shakhtar from Donetsk, the fans harassed the "Brankica" doll, chanting at her and threatening her with death. It directly changed the rest of the journalist's life.
"Everyday life is incredibly complicated and cumbersome." I stopped going out. For a while, 70 police officers took care of my safety. "That was at the moment when the police allegedly realized that a sniper rifle had been bought to kill me," says Stanković.
She adds that the big court case against Belivuk's gang is important, but that nothing will change if the structures behind it are not revealed, that is, until the connection between crime and the Serbian state leadership is talked about.
The brutal murders are now being prosecuted. The accused are hooligans, as Tageschau emphasizes, "bosses of the Serbian underworld."
"Politicians or police officers have not yet been brought to justice," concludes Tageschau.
I.Đ./Tagesschau.de
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