Who hid the death of Vladimir Cvijan? – Society

Vladimir Cvijan, former Secretary-General of the Serbian Presidency and a member of Parliament, drowned on January 5, 2018.

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Following the results of the autopsy and the police report, the Belgrade High Prosecutor’s Office closed the case and found that there was no indication that his death was the result of a crime.

The superior prosecutor’s office published this information yesterday, after the information that Vladimir Cvijan passed away appeared in public.

According to them, the prosecutor on duty was informed that on January 5, 2018, in 1,164 km of the right bank of the Danube, in the water, at a distance of about 7 meters from the bank, there was a middle-aged male corpse unidentified. found at that time.

“The prosecutor on duty ordered the autopsy of the body, together with the toxicological analysis, in order to determine the identity of the deceased and the cause of death.” After presenting the police report and the autopsy report, with the toxicological analysis, the identity of the deceased was determined: Vladimir Cvijan, born in 1976, who drowned. No traces were found on the body of the deceased that indicated mechanical injuries, and from the results of the toxicological analyzes it was concluded that there are no reasons to suspect that a crime had been committed, ”said the Superior Prosecutor’s Office, specifying the autopsy. It is mandatory in all cases an unknown corpse.

This information came more than three years after the death of the former Secretary General of the Presidency of Serbia and a deputy of the Serbian Progressive Party. Even then, it was not published at the initiative of the state, but after various outlets reported the initial information from Tabloid magazine. After that, representatives of the bar associations confirmed that Cvijan was removed from the bar registry in 2018.

Branko Čečen, Director of the Serbian Center for Investigative Journalism, notes that appropriate texts were published in the past on the occasion of the deaths of people who performed much less important functions than Vladimir Cvijan.

– It is obvious that the information about his death was intentionally withheld. In recent months, we have witnessed the total collapse of the system, during which the most terrible things emerge from the depths of the regime, Chechen says, emphasizing that “now we see better what it means not to have an independent police and prosecutor’s office. . “

The CINS director points out that the key question in this case is who covered up the information about Cvijan’s death.

– It must be determined where that interruption occurred and who prevented that information from being known. It seems that we live in a country that systematically hides its dead, those who died for the crown or some other cause, says the Chechen.

Before the tabloid text, a member of the Democratic Party, Srdjan Milivojevic, spoke publicly about Vladimir Cvijan’s death on the KTV program “Uncensored” in February this year. He then publicly appealed to journalists to investigate whether the information that Cvijan was dead and whether an autopsy had been performed was correct. According to Danas, he learned two years ago of the information that Cvijan had passed away.

– In that period, I tried to convince investigative journalists to deal with this issue, but they did not come from the numerous scandals of the authorities. For a year I tried to get a microphone to say it publicly. In the end, it was published by the Tabloid, which published an interview with Cvijan a year and a half ago, although there was already information at the time that he was not alive, Milivojevic notes.

He emphasizes that it is incredible that three years go by without any information being published about the death of the former Secretary General of the Presidency.

– I do not want to deal with the police investigation and the autopsy results, but I believe that the police are obliged to inform the public about all the circumstances of Vladimir Cvijan’s death. Now it seems that this case is shrouded in a wall of silence, Milivojevic says.

Vladimir Cvijan was born in 1976 and graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1999. Since 2004, Cvijan has been an expert analysis consultant in the field of law for the needs of the cabinet of President Boris Tadic and the secretary of the Legal Council of the President of Serbia .

In February 2008, Cvijan was appointed an advisor to Tadic and also served as secretary general to the Serbian president. He left the presidency in 2010 due to, he claimed, disagreements with the reelection of judges, and that same year he joined the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). In the list of the SNS, in the parliamentary elections of 2012, he was elected deputy.

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