Vučić and hooligans - a pact that lasts for years

Photographs of people in plainclothes beating the people gathered at the protest and detaining them, once again opened the question of who are the people who, instead of the police, enforce "law and order" on the streets of Belgrade, writes Nova.rs.

Such pictures have not been seen for the first time, and the claims of a large part of the public that they are organized fan groups support the common opinion that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has made a pact with the "boys from the stands" a long time ago.

The mentioned scenes from the current protests are not new.

This is not the first time that persons of suspicious appearance and behavior have been linked to the leader of the progressives, and the history of the "dirty" jobs they perform for the regime in Serbia dates back to the coming to power of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Although the President of Serbia announced on television and social networks in the past few days that the country would deal with hooligans and show its strength, four years earlier, another man, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, said that Serbia did not have the strength to fight against hooligans. .

Admittedly, those from the stands of football stadiums, writes Nova.rs.

Therefore, one gets the justified impression that there are "our" and "their" supporters of the club, where they are the only ones accused of trying to destroy the state order, while the others, under the auspices of the government, defend it.

The "defenders" of the state are absolved of guilt for their past misdeeds, and in return are ready to defend national interests wherever the regime needs it.

So they were also present on the night between April 24 and 25, when they defended state interests from the owners of "Udžerica" ​​because of the capital national project "Belgrade on the Water".

At that time, they "disciplined" the citizens under phantoms and with baseball bats, and their calls to the police to come to their aid were in vain.

Apart from the description of "complete idiots", the phantoms from Savamala did not bear any sanctions for what they did, writes Nova.rs.

People from the same team were also present on May 31, 2017, when they secured the enthronement of Vučić as president.

Citizens who protested, as well as journalists who came to report on the event, were physically removed by people who were not members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the President of Serbia has not yet given an adequate explanation of who the people were who beat the citizens that day.

The closeness of the president of Serbia to fan groups, of which he claims to have been a member, is also visible in the example of derogatory chanting by Partizan and Zvezda fans, where the fan leaders forbade their comrades from the stands to insult the president.

The chanting died down, and Aleksandar Stanković, aka Sale Mutavi, a former Red Star fan and member of Partizan's fan group "Janjičari", who was killed in 2016 in a mafia confrontation in Belgrade, is cited as one of the most responsible for this.

"Since it is very important for this government, above all for Aleksandar Vučić, to control the fans, even though he hates Partizan, through Novak Nedić, he got in contact with the leaders of the fans and agreed through those intermediaries to delay their imprisonment, arranged some deals for them and brought them to his side", said Duško Vujošević, trophy coach and former president of the Yugoslav sports club Partizan.

It seems that one of the tasks agreed by Vučić with the fans is the breaking up of demonstrations, which confirms the behavior of "civilians" who are dealing with citizens, and whose behavior is more fan-like and less police-like.

Party raiders, parastatal formations, party army, are many names used to describe people who use physical force in the name of the government.

Who they are, why they were hired, are questions that have been lingering since their first "engagement", but the ruling party and its president have never provided answers. Although many believe that their actions are subject to criminal responsibility, it seems that the pact made with the head of state is stronger than any law.

State job for the leader of "Delia" as a reward for loyalty

The construction company Ultra kop, behind which, according to Insider's research, is the leader of Red Star fans Marko Vučković, known as Komandant, is one of the most serious business partners of the country.

Many are inclined to claim that the business cooperation with the state, which was achieved by Vučković's company, is the result of an agreement that implies "pacifying" the fans from the northern stand.

According to the information available to the public, Ultra kop has been engaged several times as a subcontractor in state affairs, and in 2018 it was given the opportunity to manage a job worth 840 thousand euros together with Elektroizgradnja, a company owned by the City of Belgrade.

"One of the largest state-owned public companies - EPS, announced a public procurement for the performance of works on the reconstruction of a part of the electrical network in Belgrade, and the estimated value of this work was 100.000.000 dinars, that is, almost 850.000 euros. Judging by the published documentation, there was only one joint offer for this job from two companies - one owned by Belgrade, the former EPS company Elektroizgradnja Beograd and Ultra kop from Belgrade. The price offered by the consortium was only about 20.000 dinars, that is, 170 euros, lower than the estimated price," the Insider text states.

According to Insider's research, several criminal charges were filed against the owner of the Ultra mine, Marko Vučković, but none of them were prosecuted or the proceedings lasted for years.

This is exactly what happened in the only case that was initiated against Marko Vučković for inflicting serious bodily injuries on his neighbor Sava Milićević.

The incident took place in October 2008 in the Senjak settlement when, according to the police's criminal report, Sava Milićević approached him and said that she was no longer selling drugs because otherwise she would call the police.

According to the complaint, Vučković attacked the woman by hitting her with his hands and feet and caused her serious physical injuries.

After two trials, in 2014, Vučković was sentenced to seven months in prison by the first-instance verdict, but in March 2015, the High Court changed this verdict to an acquittal.

He was acquitted of charges of grievous bodily harm due to lack of evidence.

"There is not enough evidence to confirm the allegations in the indictment that he seriously injured Sava Milićević, and the first-instance court based its conviction only on the testimony of the injured party," the Court stated, among other things, explaining the cancellation of the conviction against Vučković, reports Insider.