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According to our information, the trial, for security reasons, given that both the accused and the injured are considered “dangerous people”, who have already been sentenced to decades in prison for other crimes, it will most likely not take place in the Palace of Justice but in the building. Special court.
The investigation into the attempted murder of Kalinic was carried out by the Croatian prosecution ten years ago and an indictment was filed, and then the case was handed over to Serbia in accordance with the cooperation agreements between the two countries, considering that both Kalinic and Simovic they are in prison in Serbia.
The two “citizens of Zemun” hid under false names in Zagreb in 2010, after Serbia issued an Interpol warrant for their role in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and several other murders. In early June of that year, they went to nearby Lake Rakitje to grill and there they clashed. Simovic then fired two shots at Kalinic from behind and fled, thinking he had killed him. Although he was seriously injured, he managed to reach a walker and call for help, after which he collapsed. The ambulance took him to the hospital, where he was operated on and rescued. When he woke up from the coma, he told the Croatian police who he was and who shot him.
During that time, Simović was heading towards Serbia, and after two days, a Serbian border police patrol found him. They saw a man coming out of the Danube wet and they took him away. It turned out that he was a member of the “Zemun clan” who had been wanted for years.
By the way, in one of the last trials in the Special Court, Simović said that Kalinić convinced him to go back to Serbia, live in the forest and go after cooperating witnesses. Not wanting that, she allegedly threatened to pose as Cvetko Simić, who hid the “shelters” and started unbuttoning her bag. Simovic said he saw that he would be killed then, so he pulled out a gun and shot Kalinic.
Simovic also said that Sretko Kalinic had killed Cvetko Simic before, and then dismembered her body and threw it into Zagreb’s Jarun Lake, because he was in a relationship with Simic’s wife. Kalinic vehemently denied that story in court, claiming that Simovic made it all up.
A LONG LIST OF CRIMES
In August 2013, the Belgrade Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the Special Court, which sentenced Kalinic and Simovic to 40 years in prison each for a series of murders, kidnappings and other crimes committed as members of the “Zemun clan”. They were previously sentenced to the maximum penalty in absentia in 2008, but after their arrest they asked for a new trial. The duo were sentenced to 30 years in prison each for participating in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. The same sentence was imposed on them in the proceedings against them and Luka Bojović and Vladimir Milisavljević, who were acquitted of three murders and two attempted murders. Kalinic was acquitted of the charges of attempted escape from custody in Special Court on February 7, 2012.
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