In the night between Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 May at in a restaurant Explosive devices were thrown at "Babaroga" and "Angelino", and the window of "Vinoteka" was broken. Only a few hours later, on New Belgrade the owner of the "Jerry" restaurant was wounded, and the attacker was soon arrested.
At the beginning of February of this year, both "Babarog" and "Jerry" were thrown explosive devices. At that time, four people were detained, among whom was allegedly the leader of the criminal group Aleksandar A. aka Kravica.
According to data from the Agency for Business Registers (APR), the owner of "Babaroga" is Marko Milosavljević since October last year. The history of the area where the restaurant is located goes back to the former restaurant "Severac", which was part of the property of "Komgrap", and whose bankruptcy trustee was Novak Stajić, brother of the former city secretary for legislation Nemanja Stajić, BIRN wrote. In 2018, the "Severca" space was sold for 28,8 million dinars, although it was estimated at 57,7 million. The customer was Miladin Petričević, the founder of the company "Babaroga", through whom the restaurant started operating in the renovated building of the former "Severac".
In December of last year, the owner of the "Angelino" cafe in Vračar, Vuk Bajrušević, was wounded, and after that, the police operation "Vihor" was launched. Bajrušević is known to the public for being the victim of a kidnapping in November 2000 Zemun clan. He is also known by the nickname Mali Tref, because of his sister's husband, the controversial businessman Vladan Kovačević Tref, who was murdered in the 1990s and whose murder remains unsolved to this day.
The store "Vinoteka" in Braničevska Street in Vračar was not set on fire, but its window was broken. According to data from APR, as of March of this year, the owner of the building is Ognjen Ilić, and until then "Vinoteka" was owned by the company "Wine Stars International", whose owner is Đuro Tošić with a 49 percent share. According to available data, Tošić was also the first owner of the company "Bottega Grande", which owns the luxury restaurant "Cotto" on the promenade in Belgrade on the water.
A particularly interesting direction of the story is opened by the shooting in the restaurant "Jerry" in New Belgrade, in front of which an explosive device was thrown in February of this year. It is also interesting that the MUP did not issue any official statement about this case, but the event itself could be read in the media, which reported that the owner of the restaurant "Jerry" with the initials GS was wounded. However, according to data from the APR from 2016, the owner is Petar Arbajter, but the first owner of the restaurant was Goran Samardžija. "Jerry" operates within the company "SDS Property Solutions", which also includes the well-known restaurant "Bela Reka".
As Nova 2024 wrote, the company "SDS Property Solutions" was associated with the construction of a residential and business complex in Block 63 in New Belgrade, against which the citizens of this area protested. The investor of that complex was Slađan Vrejić, one of the managers of the "Bela Reka" restaurant, and "SDS Property" then issued a statement that the company was in no way connected with the construction, nor was it part of the ownership structure of the plot itself in New Belgrade.
For now, there is no publicly confirmed information from official institutions that these attacks were organized by a criminal group. However, it is indicative that on the same day the Informer "found out" that the man MD who shot the owner of the "Jerry" restaurant, and who was then arrested, was promised 100.000 euros for the liquidation of G. S, and that the "witch clan" rented him an apartment near the restaurant.
It is also interesting that the popular former State Security operative Božidar Spasić told "Blic" that it seems to him that there is a clan behind all the events, which is assumed to be "witch doctors", and that their goal is to destabilize the system or to stretch the police into hundreds of places.
The moment in which all this is happening is particularly interesting - just a few days after the arrest of Belgrade police chief Veselin Milić, who is suspected of concealing the criminal act of murdering Aleksandar Nešović Baja in the restaurant "27" in Senjak.
In Belgrade, there are fires and shootings, and the whole picture is reminiscent of the nineties, which, it seems, are coming back in a big way.
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