BELGRADE, 11.03.2021. – The interrogation of Vladimir Vuletic, a former official of the Partizan FC, is a spin and replacing ‘the target’ in state’s attempts to divert attention from the links between its structures and the criminal world, Vladimir Gajic, a lawyer, and Vesna Radojevic, a journalist with Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) have told N1 TV on Thursday.
„It’s a specific situation. I don’t want to pretend to be courageous, but the state put us in the centre of the two clans’ showdown, which has claimed hundreds of victims here and in Montenegro. And then, the President (Aleksandar Vucic) says KRIK cooperates with (arrested leader of the Partizan FC fans group and suspected head of a criminal organisation Veljko) Belivuk. I’m more afraid of the state than of the criminals,“ Radojevic said.
She added that „the state uses the stories about Vuletic to divert the attention… The state is involved in the whole case. Like in Jovanjica 2 indictment which covered people from the police and the state security agency.“
She said KRIK could not reveal its sources. „(Vucic’s son) Danilo Vucic, guarded by ‘Cobras’ (Serbia’s Army elite unit), is often seen in the company of people who are known to be members of the so-called Kavacaki clan. We published a photo of them together taken by our journalist Bojana Pavlovic in the centre of Belgrade. They were sitting in a café, not hiding… So, Vucic’s attacks now seem like revenge.“
Radojevic added KRIK received the public and colleagues’ support but said she did not expect anything from the state. „This will fade out until a new attack.“
Gajic told N1 TV that „the regime is the source of every crime in Serbia… Jovanjica, wire-tapping, soccer fans, all are linked to the state, but we won’t learn the outcome during the rule of these authorities.“
He added that the latest affairs were „an overture to the collapse of Vucic’s regime.“