Gendarme and 45 outlaws: Part of the group expelled from Tivat planned to stay in exclusive accommodation on the coast

Retired gendarme Saša Lazić He has reserved accommodation on Luštica for 45 members of the group that was returned to Belgrade from Tivat airport the day before yesterday due to endangering national security - "Vijesti" has learned from several sources.

According to the same unofficial information, Lazić came to the peninsula located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor with fellow citizens from Obrenovac - Ivan Đukić i Goran Mihajlović.

The editorial source claims that they arrived in Montenegro the day before (on Tuesday, June 2), and that they were taken to the Bijelo Polje police station on the night between Wednesday and Thursday, after they tried to leave the country.

"Vijesti" sources claim that on Wednesday, June 3, a contract was concluded between the company "LB Hotels Management" from Tivat - "Luštica Bay Vacation Homes" with the client - the travel agency "Happy Travel" from Bjeljina.

The agreement provides for the accommodation of 45 men in the luxury complex “Luštica Bej” (Bay) from June 3rd to 5th.

"The total price for the accommodation was around 36.000 euros, with 10.500 paid in advance," one of the sources said.

The newspaper was told that investigators are trying to determine where the Luštica team planned to place the rest of the group that arrived in Tivat - 87 in total - and whether a well-known Budva businessman was supposed to be involved in the deal.

The “Happy Travel” agency is also linked to the organization of the charter flight that landed at Tivat airport on Wednesday morning at 10.41, and which returned to Belgrade with all passengers on the same day, just before 16 pm. The company was founded in 2008 in Bjeljina, and is listed as the director. Maja Antic.

The European Union (EU) - Western Balkans Summit is being held in Tivat today, the largest international gathering in the country's history, which will bring together, in addition to the highest regional officials, European leaders, such as the President of France. Emanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Prime Minister of Italy George Meloni, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, President of the European Council Antonija Koštu, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen...

“Luštica bej”: Reservations through the agency...

Responding to questions from "Vijesti", "Luštica Bej" said that the reservation for 45 people was made through a travel agency.

"The 'Luštica Bej' team was not in direct contact with the persons to whom the inquiry relates, nor did it participate in the organization of their travel. All questions regarding the entry of foreign citizens into Montenegro should be directed to the competent state authorities, as 'Luštica Bej' has no role or insight into these procedures," the company said.

Montenegrin security services announced the day before yesterday that a group of 87 Serbian citizens had been expelled because they posed a threat to national security. They said they had attended numerous public gatherings of high security risk, and that some of them were registered for committing crimes and misdemeanors with elements of violence. The team, which arrived in Tivat by charter flight, did not want to answer police questions about the reason for their arrival in the country.

Many of the passengers on the flight the day before yesterday, who are now banned from entering Montenegro, have been labeled by Serbian media, local opposition politicians, civic activists and students as "beaters" of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), i.e. the regime. Aleksandar Vučić - who are linked to the breaking up of student protests in Serbia, riots at sporting events, causing incidents, organizing and camping in the so-called čaciland in Belgrade's Pionirski Park in front of the building of the President of Serbia...

The Police Directorate (UP) and the National Security Agency (ANB) the day before yesterday seized from the expelled group banners with SNS messages - "Serbia wins", a long-distance communication device and a maritime radio station, which were found in a plane that landed in Tivat, and two buses with Serbian license plates were also confiscated, which are suspected of being intended for transporting "guests".

In response to the expulsion of the beaters, Serbia has been preventing and making it difficult for Montenegrin citizens to enter the country. After that, Serbian secret services advised Vučić not to travel to Tivat due to alleged security threats. However, he landed in the coastal town yesterday.

ANB: Cooperation with partner services

The ANB told "Vijesti" yesterday that the secret service, in preparation for the summit in Tivat, is continuously establishing intensive cooperation and communication with partner services, with the aim of ensuring the highest level of security and the successful implementation of the event.

"Together with the Police and the Army of Montenegro, we are carrying out all necessary activities and are confident that the summit will proceed smoothly," said the institution it heads. Ivica Janović.

The newspaper asked the Agency whether they had submitted a security assessment for the EU-Western Balkans Summit to the Serbian Security Information Agency (BIA), given that the BIA announced the day before yesterday that the ANB had not done so, and how they would comment on the BIA's claims that there is a high security risk for Vučić in Montenegro and whether it has information that confirms such an assessment.

The editorial team also asked the ANB whether the BIA had had any special requests in recent days regarding the verification of certain individuals who could pose a threat to the President of Serbia, as well as whether the ANB had operational information that the leader of the Kavač clan was Radoje Switzerland located in Montenegro.

The BIA officially announced the day before yesterday that they had advised Vučić not to travel to Montenegro due to the high security risk, and that they were basing this on their operational knowledge that Zvicer was in Montenegro. This was the first public statement on the institution's website since March 17 last year.

Stojadinović: He is losing support in Montenegro

Commenting on the real intentions behind the arrival of thugs at Tivat airport, a columnist for "Peščanika" Ljubodrag Stojadinovic He told "Vijesti" that this move was the peak of Vučić's irrationality, that is, the Serbian president's attempt to turn his "insignificance" into a move by a great statesman, and that in the end it came down to a "bizarre operetta".

"... In which he (Vučić) does not understand his dimensions, the consequences of his actions, he does not know what he will do next, nor does he know why he is doing it. He thinks he is doing it to preserve power. This is, unfortunately, possible in an environment where there are such people as that wild group from the bottom that came on a paid flight, which was probably paid for by the state," Stojadinović stated.

He assessed that Vučić is a phenomenon because, in his words, he is "a man of very modest intelligence", and in some ways he gives some people the impression that he is an intelligent politician.

"On the contrary - he has a fund of a dozen or so well-researched phrases that he uses with a semi-literate audience and in that way he functions with agitprop, so that without him everything would collapse, that Serbia would no longer exist, not even those people who live in Serbia. That is roughly the mantra that, unfortunately, works here in Serbia. We are a socially irresponsible people, we are not able to take care of our own destiny...", stated Stojadinović.

Asked whether he thought that this "secret" operation, which was intentionally carried out publicly, was a message to EU officials that the stability of the region depends on Vučić's mood, and that he wanted to show that with a small group of people he could destabilize what is likely to be the next EU member state, the interviewee replied that, if that was the idea, then it stemmed from, to put it mildly, an "unsound mind."

"According to his projection, Montenegro is part of the so-called 'Serbian world' which has completely failed several times... He (Vučić) is losing support in Montenegro - he is losing those who were once loyal to him," said Stojadinović, alluding to the head of the Montenegrin parliament. Andrija Mandić, who has been close to Vučić for years, but has seemingly recently been moving away from such politics and turning to the West.

Stojadinović also pointed out that he believes Vučić is surprised that the police and judiciary in Montenegro have started doing their job the way it should be done, stating that he read the first-instance verdict of the Podgorica Basic Court, which rejected Vučić's brother's lawsuit. Andrei against the editor-in-chief of "Vijesti" Mihailo Jovovic, editor of the black chronicle Danilo Mihajlovic and female journalists Jelena JovanovićThe subject of the proceedings was a text in which "Vijesti" quoted parts of a Sky communication which, according to the case files, was conducted by a fugitive police officer. Ljubo Milović and from Nikšić Miloš Božović, which mentions the Vučić brothers. Due to the publication of that text, Andrej Vučić demanded that the journalists of the editorial office jointly pay him 5.000 euros for the violation of honor, reputation and dignity.

"I read the verdict signed by the judge Jelena Andjelic - that's fantastic. Not only does it require great knowledge and great literacy that allows someone to explain that it was a so-called SLAPP lawsuit that was intended to scare journalists. The brothers (Vučić) are convinced that everything that works in Serbia can also work in Montenegro," Stojadinović underlined.

He said that as a citizen of Serbia, he is ashamed to live in such a country, and that it is "hard to survive the daily shame when you know that this person is presenting himself as your president and that they are saying that this is his Serbia."

"But you have the privilege to place Vučić in the status of persona non grata (unwanted person), and our tragedy is that all the people you expelled the day before yesterday are returning to us here...", the interlocutor stated.

Stojadinović has rejected calls from Serbian tabloids, the local Assembly leader Ana Brnabić and BIA to Vučić not to come to Montenegro, called "subordinate paranoia", and Vučić's refusal to accept their advice - "cowardly courage".

"These are two ends of the same pathological relationship at the top of the government and in the agitprop that the government organized to celebrate at one level the half-world, the half-intellectuals and people who are not journalists," Stojadinović said.

Beaters for a more pleasant stay

Vučić stated yesterday in Tivat that the charter flight with SNS "supporters", who were not allowed to enter the country by the Montenegrin police, was organized by someone from his entourage who wanted to make his stay in Tivat "more pleasant", but that it was a "big political mistake".

He stated that people from his environment wanted to provide him with "a better environment that he would be happy with," and that out of the 87 returned to Serbia, "five of them had criminal records, which is a lower average than on a regular flight or bus."

Asked to name those who organized the disputed flight, Vučić said that it was an intra-party matter and that no one had bad intentions, but that he would "neither be guilty nor obligated to pay the political price."

"Stories about destabilization are meaningless... That's my business and ours, because they didn't commit any crime... And don't add things that didn't happen, because they didn't come armed... They didn't have weapons, nothing ugly or offensive, to me the 'Serbia is winning' banner is a nice message," Vučić said.

He criticized the media for publishing the personal data of the deportees, which Montenegrin services assessed as being of security interest, and that the goal was to "present Serbia as a destabilizing factor."

He added that the Montenegrin state leadership could have avoided a diplomatic incident if it had contacted him and communicated the problem with him.

Regarding claims that his safety was threatened by his arrival in Montenegro, due to the alleged presence of Radoje Zvicer in the country, he said that the records from the "Sky" application indicated that representatives of criminal clans were planning an assassination attempt on him, but that he did not see this as a reason to cancel his arrival at the summit.

He said that the Montenegrin leadership did not treat him in a hospitable manner, but that Serbs living in Montenegro reacted well to his visit.

"Serbia will always strive to build friendly relations with our citizens, regardless of the hybrid war waged by the Podgorica establishment and the Podgorica media," Vučić said.

Mandic pleased with Spajic and Milatovic

Head of Parliament and New Serbian Democracy (NSD) Andrija Mandic said last night that he was pleased that the president of the country Jakov Milatovic and the Prime Minister Milojko Spajic did not react to the ban on entry into Montenegro of a group of 87 Serbian citizens because, as he said, harsh rhetoric can cause unforeseeable consequences.

Mandić said that he "is not at all sorry" that his party has no connection with the security sector.

"The President of Serbia announced, and I believe he is announcing this responsibly, that there were no such security-interested persons there, that it was organized by other people who wanted to meet him. I think we are heading in the right direction because the entire situation is de-escalating. After that, our citizens had problems entering Serbia. Harsh words can easily arise here," said the head of parliament, while appearing on the Public Service Broadcasting Service.

He said that he believes that anything that could complicate relations with Serbia should be avoided.

On the other hand, the opposition Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) said that the almost complete silence of the highest state officials was particularly indicative.

"While in earlier times, representatives of the current government had a ready comment on every issue concerning relations between Montenegro and Serbia, today we are witnessing unusual restraint and the absence of any political stance on the part of Milatović, Mandić and Spajić," said the DPS, adding that such behavior leaves the impression that state interests and the need to explain important security decisions to the public are being subordinated to the fear of the reaction of official Belgrade and Vučić.

Their colleagues from the opposition benches, the Civic Movement (GP) URA, announced that they strongly condemn, as they said, the obvious attempts at destabilization ahead of the summit in Tivat, which aim to send worrying political messages and attempt to undermine the reputation and stability of the state.

Is the border passable?

The European Commission told "Vijesti" yesterday that they had noted the ban on Serbian citizens entering Montenegro, as well as that they were monitoring the situation on the border with Serbia, with the message that the situation needed to be normalized.

And the situation at the border yesterday was, to say the least, unsatisfactory. Waiting in lines for five or six hours without a valid reason, searches of citizens...

Former police chief banned from entering Serbia Nikola Terzic, as well as a high-ranking official of the URA Police Station Blaž Radenović, and to Montenegrin citizens at the Belgrade airport, among whom was the editor of the "Vijesti" portal Dušan Cicmil, their passports were confiscated while they were taken to separate rooms where they remained for about 40 minutes.

Despite all this, the highest Montenegrin officials remained silent, and only the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement later in the day, stating that diplomatic communication with Serbia had been initiated after reports from Montenegrin citizens that they had been denied entry to that country.

Yesterday in Tivat, Vučić called on Serbian state authorities to allow Montenegrin citizens into that country through border crossings, and Television Vijesti reported last night that BIA officers had withdrawn from border crossings, and that the situation was expected to normalize.

The Serbian Movement of Free Citizens announced yesterday that the detention of Montenegrin citizens at border crossings with Serbia and the ban on entry of certain citizens are unfounded, that the regime in Belgrade is "taking revenge for Tivat by mistreating Montenegrin citizens", and that this is typical of a student (Vučić). Vojislav Seselj.

The charter flight was scheduled to return the same day, one hour and 40 minutes after landing.

"Vijesti" learned from the Civil Aviation Agency (CAA) that the charter flight with a group of 87 fighters was approved based on the request of the Serbian national airline "Air Serbia", because all the prescribed conditions were met, as for all other charter flights, which the CAA approves in accordance with the Air Transport Law and by-laws.

The flight was approved the day before - June 2nd, and took place on June 3rd, while the return flight was planned for the same day - an hour and 40 minutes after landing.

The CAA unofficially explained to the newspaper that when approving flights, they do not have access to the passenger list, nor do they need to submit it for flight approval, in accordance with applicable regulations, and that the necessary checks in this area are carried out by the competent state institutions, i.e. security services, which they did in this case.

Lies from the tabloid kitchen

Montenegrin portals close to Vučić's regime announced yesterday that Croatian President Zoran Milanović arrived at the summit in Tivat by warship.

However, Milanović neither arrived in Tivat by warship, nor is he participating in the summit, but rather Zagreb's representative will be Prime Minister Andrej Plenković.

The "Borba" portal used a photo from a few years ago, when Milanović was on an official visit to Montenegro, to spread this news. The photos and footage show former Foreign Minister Srđan Darmanović, who welcomed Milanović at the time.

The same fake news was also reported by the "IN4S" portal, as well as the "Pogled" portal.

Dodik: Podgorica made a mistake, Serbia must defend itself

Milorad Dodik, the former long-time president of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity Republika Srpska, said yesterday that "Podgorica made an absolute mistake" by not allowing a group of 87 Serbian citizens to enter Montenegro.

"Serbia must defend itself and I stand by Serbia. I understand Serbia for taking reciprocal measures, and the abuse of Serbia by everyone in the region must stop. And so must Podgorica, which has not hesitated to try to treat the citizens of Serbia in this way in recent days," Dodik wrote on the "Iks" network.