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Nebojsa Simeunovic, 63, an investigating judge at the Belgrade District Court, spoke by phone with her sister Jelica, the only close relative, on November 6, 2000, and saw some acquaintances, and a day later was seen by last time alive with two men in Knez Mihailova Street in Belgrade.
As she did not respond to her phone calls for the next few days, which was unusual, the nurse opened her apartment with one of the other judge’s keys previously obtained from her brother. Everything was in its place, and nothing was missing in the closet, except a shirt, jeans, and a leather jacket. The leather duffle bag that he always carried when he went on trips was in the apartment … Sister Jelica reported her brother’s disappearance to the police.
His body was found by passersby on the banks of the Danube on December 3, 2000. The Belgrade District Court issued an express statement to the effect that Judge Simeunovic “committed suicide because he was depressed, prone to alcohol and had heart disease. serious”.
However, it is interesting that neither the investigating judge nor the prosecutor went to the place where the judge’s body was found, although the procedure requires it. According to some sources, the identity card and other documents found next to the body of Judge Simeunovic were dry, although the body was discovered a month after his disappearance! The investigation was declared secret in 2006.
The version of the suicide was valid until 2010, although the sister and some media persistently pointed out the deficiencies in the investigation and claimed that it was a murder.
Jelica Simeunović claimed that she had information that her brother was in a private prison and that the killers were waiting for a political order. They then killed her by injecting ammonia into her ears. According to her, there is a document from the Institute of Forensic Medicine indicating that traces of ammonia were found on Simeunović’s body.
Only in 2010, following a statement by the then President of the Republic Boris Tadić, the Republic Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac questioned the version of suicide.
Why would someone kill him?
Simeunovic had no children and did not marry. He was dedicated to his work, and one of the few that no one said was dishonorable or corrupt. He led the investigations into the murders of Police General Radovan Stojicic Badza, War Minister Pavle Bulatovic, the accusations against “Julovac” Nenad Djordjevic, who came into conflict with Miro Markovic, and the accident of a Russian plane with cargo for aviation of Gaddafi in Surcin. Perhaps you turned a deaf ear to someone’s request to close your eyes?
Or did he take revenge on Milosevic’s “debuts” because of Kolubara?
As an investigating judge on duty, between October 3-4, 2000, he refused to sign the prosecution’s request to arrest DOS leaders Nebojsa Covic, Boris Tadic and the entire Kolubara miners strike committee . If it hadn’t, the question is whether October 5 would have happened.
Those who came to power that day did not bother to pay their debt …
Testimony
“The strike started on Friday and it was difficult to survive on Saturday and Sunday, because there were few workers at work,” says Ranković, now president of the Kolubara Workers’ Union.
“On Saturday the late (police general) Bosko Buha arrived, and (the chief of staff, convicted of war crimes in Kosovo), Nebojsa Pavkovic, came with the army and the Cobras on October 3 to arrest us.”
He says that Nebojsa Simeunovic, a judge at the Belgrade District Court, prevented everything.
“That night when Pavković was there, they were waiting for Simeunović to present an accusation and arrest us.
“However, he refused and that is why we go to his grave every year, because he saved not only our lives, but perhaps also the civil war in Serbia.”
Members of the army and the police were armed, but also some citizens who came to support the workers, Ranković notes.
“If he had tried to arrest us, there would have been shootings and it probably would have spread to all of Serbia, and the question is whether it would have happened on October 5.”
“But when Pavković saw that Simeunović refused, he walked over to the table, grabbed an apple, took a bite, and said, ‘Guys, hold on.’
“In those days, the power of the army and the police was broken in Kolubara. I guess it broke that too.”
(Kurir.rs, Momcilo Petrovic / BBC Serbia)
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