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Two shootings in two days. Both in front of many witnesses and with a tragic outcome. In the settlement of Braće Jerković from a firearm Vedran Repčić, forty-one, was killed.
Twenty-four hours later, a similar scene in front of an elevator in an underground garage in the Belleville neighborhood of New Belgrade, with multiple bullets to the chest and head. Bojan Mirković, 34, was liquidated. A day later, the President of Serbia announced that knows the name of Mirkovic’s killer.
“The search for the person is underway. They thought it was impossible to find out. The interesting thing is that the person who was liquidated, as recently liquidated in Usce, also had important contacts with certain people in the state structures. we are working, “said Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia.
The cooperation of employees of state structures, mainly the police and the judiciary, with members of criminal groups is not new, experts agree.
“The mafia has strengthened financially, it is buying positions in the police, the prosecution, the courts, the media with money,” said Marko Nicovic of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
“The mafia makes contact with politicians and political parties”
Criminologist Dobrivoje Radovanović claimed that the mafia is making a deal with politicians and political parties.
“Wherever he goes, wherever he can, he makes a button. They even do some things for the state that they use to get involved with the state,” Radovanovic said.
And it has not been confirmed if the new criminal clan is also involved in that connection. However, the media speculates that a group from Belgrade has strengthened itself on the Serbian crime scene in the last two years with the support of the Kotor and Kavac clans.
In addition to the recent liquidations, they are also due to the kidnappings of Lazar Vukićević and Goran Veličković. The first disappeared in October with two friends in Banovo brdo, and the second on August 3 in the city center.
“Young people are a resource of the mafia”
Marko Nicovic stated that there are considered to be four areas in the former Yugoslavia where killings are ordered.
“And you have to look for where it is done, where it is organized, who organizes that system. If you have young people who decide to be murderers, like Usce’s, they are 23 years old. So young people are a resource for the mafia to hire them, especially those who they have never been held criminally responsible, so that is an additional problem for the police, “said Marko Nicovic.
Radovanovic asserted that the state can deal with organized crime only if there is no selective prosecution, if there is no prosecution of one and the release of the other.
“When you create a judiciary independent of political parties and a prosecutor’s office independent of political parties, and then when the police are subordinate to the prosecution, it is part of the prosecution,” Radovanovic said.
Since the beginning of the year, several people have been killed in criminal clashes. The first liquidation was in early January, when Marko Vukovic, close to the Kavac clan, was killed in a shootout in Bezanijska kosa. After seven months of peace, clashes would follow in Vracar, Banjica and New Belgrade.
