People who know him well say he is incredibly funny and has a talent for impersonating other people. He knows how to change his voice, to guess his facial expressions, to make you think for a moment that the person whose voice you hear is in front of you. It is not about any of the famous Serbian comedians - on the contrary. It is about Dr. Nebojลกa Stefanoviฤ, the first man of the Serbian police for the last five years, "Neลกa from Belgrade" as he is called in some circles, a man with a fake doctorate and one of the main people of SNS.
If Dr. Stefanoviฤ really has such a talent for impersonation, it is easy to imagine a situation in which he called Dijana Hrkaloviฤ - at that time the state secretary in the MUP - to a meeting about ten days ago and told her in front of the collegium that she would be relieved of her duties. And she says this in her voice, which is deep, cracked and which you would never associate with Hrkaloviฤ's fragility. Mostly, she stands frozen, but that's her usual pose - she doesn't show that she's surprised at all. Those at the table are looking at the floor. When Dijana Hrkaloviฤ leaves the room, everyone around Dr. Stefanoviฤ raises their heads and applause is heard. Afterwards, they have a drink to celebrate the final return of power to the office of the Minister of Police.
Dr. Stefanoviฤ thanked Dijana Hrkaloviฤ for his cooperation a few days after he returned from an important trip to the USA; he was received there better than Ivica Dacic at one time, and he probably "passed" better, given that his English is correct and his diplomatic skills are enviable. Who knows what Stefanoviฤ wanted more on his return from the USA - to tell Dijana Hrkaloviฤ that she is an "ex" or to brag to Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ that the visit went well. Theories, in the absence of real information, range from Dijana Hrkaloviฤ falling because of an order from "Langley" to the fact that, on the contrary, she was a "connection for Langley" and that after last week's demonstration of force in the north of Kosovo, she was labeled responsible because she was not on provided all information on time. The silence of the authorities regarding this change, that is, the dismissal, as it is written in the official decision of the Government of Serbia from May 31, 2019, additionally raises the level of mystification that otherwise follows the short career of this talented woman from Poลพarev.
Whatever was in the background, it is only certain that in the silent war between her and Stefanoviฤ, he won and that after the "expulsion" of Veselin Miliฤ from the position of the powerful head of the Belgrade police in the summer of 2018, he showed why he trained by hitting tractor tires with a mace - he gained stamina and determination, which left him only in some very unusual situations.
THE MYSTERY OF SALETO MUTAVOG
And still, as it seemed in the fall of 2016 when Aleksandar Stankoviฤ aka Sale Mutavi, the leader of the hooligan fan group "Janissaries" and a convicted drug dealer, was killed in Belgrade in a mafia style, it seems that it was a kind of turning point in the political and the underground life of Serbia. It is possible that we will quickly find out how that moment led - in the end - to the dismissal of Dijana Hrkaloviฤ, a person unequivocally close to the murdered Stankoviฤ. Even so close that there were a number of credible sources who said that she was supposed to be the best man at the wedding that was supposed to take place two weeks from the day Stankovic was killed in a brutal and insidious manner.
While evidence material is being collected and investigations are being carried out, while waiting for the resolution of the mystery that disturbed the entire government in Serbia, which held extraordinary conferences for the media for two days and announced a tough fight against organized criminals, one thing was certain even then: in During his address to the citizens in those days, Dr. Stefanoviฤ looked confused and scared, and spoke with a "twisted, twisted tongue".
Two and a half years later, things are still not clear, but it appears that some kind of paramilitary unit has been established in Serbia through a violent fan group. The writer of this text remembers that "janissaries" appeared at Partizan's stadium in 2013 and remembers that members of some other, "older" groups talked about guys who go and shoot and who cannot be stopped. This was followed by various events in the interests of the current government: from calming the discontent of fan groups that support Partizan and preventing derogatory chants against Vuฤiฤ, through voter education, first in the north of Kosovo and then throughout Serbia, to the suspension of the rule of law in Hercegovaฤka Street in Belgrade in the spring of 2016. , when 12 buildings were demolished in one night, and some people were arrested and harassed by people in phantoms, in the famous "Savamala case".
And all this was one of the biggest secrets of all these years, and Dijana Hrkaloviฤ, who after a short stay in the BIA was transferred to actually lead the Serbian criminal police from the position of secretary of the Criminal Police Directorate of the MUP of Serbia, is mentioned as a person who knows about it. all since she was personally involved in some actions and relationships with people from that group. Her short professional career is simply filled with events treated in public either as organized crime or as tabloid pranks.
HEARING OF TABLOID OWNERS, KIDNAPPING "JOURNALIST"
Dijana Hrkaloviฤ was first heard of when she went to Novi Sad to interrogate Danilo Redลพepoviฤ, the then editor of the Internet tabloid Telepromter, who in the first years of the Vuฤiฤ regime severely annoyed the government and who, after that "investigation", slowly disappeared from the Serbian media scene. Namely, Telepromter was involved in the "eavesdropping affair" in 2015; then a hacker team unknown to this portal destroyed the entire internet infrastructure, for which Redลพepoviฤ later accused the BIA and especially Dijana Hrkaloviฤ, whom he claimed that her job in the MUP was to cover up various cases. Later, it was found out that she was also interviewed by the former head of the Criminal Police Directorate, Rodoljub Miloviฤ, in the already forgotten "papaya" affair.
Somewhere at the same time when Dijana Hrkaloviฤ enters into a conflict with Telepromter, the affair of the attack on Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ in Potoฤari, at the commemoration of the crime against the Muslims of Srebrenica in July 1995, also takes place. The Serbian media presented the attack on Vuฤiฤ as an assassination attempt, and later it was found out that the Serbian police had illegally sent numerous police officers trained for monitoring, surveillance and recording, not to protect Vuฤiฤ, but for some other "security" reasons. The illegal stay of inspectors from the Serbian criminal police (Department for Special Investigative Methods) led to the fact that they "spoke" in the fall of 2016, in the moments of the "crisis caused" by the murder of Salet Mutavo.
Inspectors Milan Dumanoviฤ and Mladen Trboviฤ marked in their report Dijana Hrkaloviฤ as a person who "threatened" them in some way if they continued to "ask questions" about what they did in Potoฤari in July 2015, and she told them in in her statement to the Department of Internal Control, she labeled people who "disobey the elders". Dijana Hrkaloviฤ should appear as a witness in the continuation of the trial in the proceedings closed to the public, which have been conducted against these two for the past year and a half.
Even that affair has not "recovered" yet, and in the spring of 2018, we will "run into" Dijana Hrkaloviฤ again - now as the state secretary of the MUP, she is going to Bela Crkva to "pick up" and take the "kidnapped" journalist Stefan Cvetkoviฤ to the hearing. It's another one of those cases where she was involved that was never fully explained. What was seen after that was that Cvetkoviฤ later appeared in the strangest places - either in the Serbian government, or at Vuฤiฤ's media conferences, but also during the intrusion of demonstrators into the RTS building in March 2019.
D. Hrkaloviฤ will appear in public two more times before his resignation. For the first time, indirectly - in the "fight" against Kosovo's membership in Interpol, she held "intensive" talks with many representatives of different countries of the world with representative offices in Serbia, which resulted in Pristina not joining that international organization. For the second and last time, in the local elections in Lucani, Dijana Hrkaloviฤ accused a part of the opposition of being behind the election violence and that she, as the leader of the "parajedina", was on the ground to prevent a surprising election result.
EVERYTHING IS KNOWN AND NO ONE HAS A CLUE
What the future holds for this young woman remains to be seen. Those who don't like her are afraid of her, they believe that she had to "fly" because she was connected "with the mafia" and that now they are looking for a place where she could continue to "live and work". In her last statement to the media, her former boss, Dr. Stefanoviฤ, says that as far as he knows, she was not engaged in any other ministry or state service after her dismissal, which could be understood as if Hrkaloviฤ was in some way driven out of state affairs.
It is certain that there were not those who shed a tear when she left the MUP. Maybe only Dejan Milenkovic, her close associate from the Criminal Police, who is said to have done everything and only according to her instructions. And he led the monitoring and documentation sector, so it can be assumed that various transcripts, wiretapped conversations and video recordings passed through the hands of Dijana Hrkaloviฤ. Perhaps some of those mentioned by Vuฤiฤ when he angrily commented some time ago on the downfall of the Austrian politician Heinz-Christian Strache after the publicly broadcast compromising recordings from Ibiza. Then Vuฤiฤ said that our services also have various recordings, but that they never use them for political purposes, because I guess that's not nice.
It is certain that Dijana Hrkaloviฤ knows all this and that she herself participated in numerous actions and agreements that, if they were made public, could destroy some careers, and shed light on many details of important events from the past few years. And maybe put some people directly in danger. Her downfall or just being transferred from the MUP, in which now Dr. Stefanoviฤ can finally relax a little and say that he really leads that ministry (especially since he got rid of Veselin Miliฤ in the summer of 2018), is not an event that will go away quickly to forget.
And Dijana Hrkaloviฤ is young enough to have time to wait for the continuation of her career, if that was ever her goal and if she didn't just want to have power in her hands. It somehow looks better than what she did as a student at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, where she wrote papers such as "The influence of gender differences of voters on the probability of the boomerang effect of negative political advertisements." She reveals the following:
"The existence of the boomerang effect was established, both in negative advertising with a political platform and in negative advertising with the personal characteristics of the candidate." It was found that there are no gender differences when it comes to the boomerang-effect of negative ads with a political platform, but that there are differences when it comes to the boomerang-effect of negative ads with the personal characteristics of the candidates. Young men evaluate the sponsor of a negative ad with personal characteristics more negatively than girls, while girls evaluate the target of a negative ad more negatively. By confirming the first hypothesis, it was established that the boomerang effect is a real phenomenon."
In the following days, we will soon see if the boomerang effect was applied in her case, which will hit the person who produced it, or if it is a somewhat more rustic variant of the attack, which leaves her no chance to defend herself.
