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Clan War: Graveyard Killings and Kamikaze Assassins

September 08, 2022, 08:09 am Jelena Zoric

The hired amateur killer: The apprehension of Duško Tanasković

The war between the Skaljarski and Kavački clans is still going on. In eight years, more than 60 people were killed in clashes between drug clans. The number of victims is increasing month by month. There are shootings throughout the region, and the killers are mostly from Serbia

The last victim of the clan war in a row is Goran Vlaović (38), aka Goro. He was connected to the Skaljar clan and, according to the media, a "trusted man" of the widely known criminal Filip Korać. Goran Vlaović was a Montenegrin citizen from Herceg Novi, he was killed in Croatia, and he was buried on Monday morning at the New Bezanija cemetery in Belgrade...

Funerals of members of criminal clans have become high-risk events... Liquidation during a funeral was recorded for the first time in the history of the Serbian underground on January 14, 2017 in Sopot. Milomir Jovanović (46) was killed by sniper shots at the local cemetery, while he was returning from his friend's funeral. Jovanović was associated with Dejan Stojanović Kek, the former leader of the Novi Beograd clan, who has been on the run since 2006. For years, Keka was labeled as one of the main people in the "Amerika" clan, which connects criminals from the Balkans in distributing cocaine from South America to Europe...

Disposable killers

Goran Vlaović was in company on Zrće beach on the island of Pag when he was hit by a bullet. Duško Tanasković (28) from Kragujevac fired one shot from a Glock pistol at him in front of numerous eyewitnesses...

It was another murder in the Balkans in the last few months when a paid amateur assassin shot from the shadows on behalf of the powerful. This phenomenon caught the eye of all investigators in the region. Police inspectors say that a new trend has taken hold in the underground, namely "kamikaze killers". Although the Balkans abounds with experienced shooters who have been through the battlefields of the 90s and who have been considered elusive for years, the latest mafia liquidations are made by inexperienced young men who, as a rule, are quickly arrested or identified...

Delinquents, petty criminals are trained to become killers. When they are caught, they have nothing to say, because they know nothing. Often they themselves are liquidated after the murder...

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