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For two days, the first defendant in the Jovanjica case, Predrag Koluvija, presented his defense. After turbulent days in the courtroom, pro-government tabloids continue to stir up the storm, accusing police inspectors and the prosecutor of conspiring to link the Vucic family to Coluvia and marijuana production. However, Koluvija’s defense also appeared on the official SNS website.
He presented Coluvia through scenarios, motives and accusations against those who arrested and charged him. Opposition politician Miroslav Aleksic also followed the presentation of Koluvija’s defense, who was the first to reveal Jovanjic’s case to the public in November last year, considering that no one had officially announced the largest narcotics seizure in nearly two weeks.
Aleksic says that Koluvija’s defense also indicates that he was in the drug business together with the top of the state.
“He speaks as a spokesman for the government, he uses the same sentences as the president of the state, that the attack on the state is that someone arrested the marijuana producers,” says Aleksić.
However, there is someone who believes in Coluvia’s words: the pro-government tabloids. For days, police officers from the Belgrade Anti-Drug Department and the Prosecutor have been presented as persons who tried to abuse the investigation, accusing the president’s brother, Andrej Vučić, and the controversial Kosovo businessman Zvonko Veselinović, drug trafficking.
“That connection between the tabloids and the government is very important, it always coincides with some political interests,” said journalist Stevan Dojčinović.
Is there any political interest in putting pressure on police inspectors and the prosecution? And this is not the first time. Namely, in the middle of the investigation into Jovanjica, in January 2020, the head of the Anti-Drug Department of the Belgrade Police, Slobodan Milenković, and the inspector whose name appears on the front pages of the yellow press these days , Dušan Mitić, were questioned twice on a lie detector. Both times they were found to be telling the truth.
However, for the media close to the authorities and their interlocutors, that does not seem to be enough.
“Those policemen underwent polygraph examinations, and when Vučić said he was ready to go to polygraph with his brother, they hadn’t left yet. Now Vučići, Vulin, Babić and everyone who visited Jovanjica should go to polygraph, but not to go to the Vulin polygraph, but to go to an independent one, the policemen have finished with the polygraph, ”says Miroslav Aleksić.
Koluvia’s accusations against the police and the prosecution are being made by his defense lawyers outside the courtroom. Among them is Vladimir Đukanović, otherwise a member of the SNS, but also president of the Parliamentary Commission of Justice. Djukanovic’s statements as Koluvia’s defense attorney are also broadcast on the official website of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
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