The leader of the Civic Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic was killed four years ago today in front of his party's headquarters in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Ivanović was hit in the back with several shots from a pistol fired from a moving car, and at the end of November 2021, a new hearing in the trial for his murder began before the Special Division of the Basic Court in Pristina.
The Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo filed charges against six persons of Serbian nationality for that crime. The accused are Marko Rošić, Nedeljko Spasojević, Dragiša Marković, Žarko Jovanović, Silvana Arsović and Rade Basara.
They are charged with the criminal offenses of participation in or organization of a criminal group, abuse of official position, assistance in the commission of a criminal offense of aggravated murder, unauthorized possession of a weapon, disclosure of an official secret and abuse of official duty by tampering with evidence.
According to the prosecution, at least five other suspects were involved in the case of Ivanović's murder.
Milan Radoičić, the vice-president of the Serbian List, as well as businessman Zvonko Veselinović, are also linked to the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, but the Serbian government stood behind them and said that they had been examined on a polygraph.
In July 2017, Ivanovic's car was set on fire, and in the last interview he gave, the GI SDP leader said that the Serbs in the north of Kosovo are not afraid of the Albanians as much as of the local Serbs, as he said, "criminals and kabadahs who drive jeeps without table".
Lawyer Aleksandar Ivanovic, nephew of the murdered Serbian politician from Kosovo Oliver Ivanovic, said recently that it is not known who killed Oliver, but it is known that "someone powerful is covering up all the security camera footage in North Mitrovica that recorded the movements of people who followed and killed his uncle".
In an interview with Novi Magazin, Ivanovic said that it is obvious that even after four years of the murder, the time has not yet come for the perpetrators and perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Several political parties in Belgrade have announced a protest called "Who killed Oliver?", which should start at 12.00:8.15 in front of the presidency and end in front of St. Mark's Church, and gatherings have also been announced in Kosovska Mitrovica at XNUMX:XNUMX, at a time when Ivanovic killed, at the scene of the assassination.
Vučić and Brnabić lit a candle
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, lit a candle for the murdered Ivanovic in the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade this morning.
Along with Vučić, his unmarried wife Milena Popović, Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabić and head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petković, lit candles in Ivanović's memory.
Immediately before that, the priests of the temple served a memorial service for Oliver Ivanovic.
As the presidency stated in the announcement of the event, Ivanovic was a "prominent Serbian politician from Kosovo and Metohija."
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