While Belivuk and Miljković kidnapped and slaughtered victims in Ritopek, and threw their remains into the river, the police boasted that the crime statistics in Serbia had never been better and that the rate of murders and street fights had decreased. No bodies, no negative stats.
While Velja and Mare cruised around Belgrade in armored cars, no one eavesdropped or followed them. Absurd, but the clan's victims were on the wiretapping and monitoring measures of the police, and that was in the moments when they were abducted and killed. Some of the victims were also police informers who disappeared one day, that is, ended up in Ritopek, where no one was looking for them. These disappearances are hidden from the public, even those that would have happened in broad daylight in the elite neighborhoods of Belgrade, which are under the surveillance of security cameras.
Before Ritopek, some of the victims were first taken to the fans' rooms at the Partizan stadium, almost in the center of the Serbian capital. And no one responded, for years. Admittedly, several policemen tried, who would immediately lose their positions, as well as several journalists, who would be declared enemies of the state. It was silent until several foreign services began to spread the word that we have "Mexico in the middle of Belgrade" and until the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced war on the mafia in October 2020 via Instagram.
For a year and a little more than eight months, the members of the organized criminal group Belivuk have been in the custody of the Special Court building in Belgrade. Despite "all" the evidence that the public had the opportunity to see during the lengthy address of the President of the State and the Minister of the Interior on Pink Television, when the photos of the massacred victims were shown for the first time, it seems that something stuck. Apart from preliminary hearings, the trial will never begin...
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