Jelena Zoric

Cases

One call didn't change anything

These days, four years have passed since Ivanka Mićić (62) died near Loznica. And only these days did the trial of Đorđe Danojlić really begin, accused of hitting a woman who was walking with a car, leaving her to die by the side of the road and running away. The accused is in the courtroom, but the truth has begun to be buried and drowned among court records, numerous expert reports and analyses. Prosecution experts claim one thing, and defense experts completely different. Legally, the question is now which vehicle hit the woman. As if it is no longer important what the truth is, but whose experts will defend their opinions more strongly. And the opinions of experts in a corrupt and politically burdened society are more susceptible to influences than science... What will prevail

University College of Serbia

Change of prof. Dr. Dugalić: Political revenge in healthcare

After the dismissal of the head of the department of the First Surgical Clinic, professor Dr. Vladimir Dugalić, patients are looking for answers. One of the most respected experts in liver surgery in the region was dismissed because he criticized the Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar and was among the first to support the student protests

Portrait of a contemporary: Boža Spasić

The suffering of the “talking weasel”

The hero of this text was an intelligence officer of the former State Security Service of former Yugoslavia. He was allegedly hired by the UDBA to organize criminals to attack and kill problematic emigrants around the world. Serbian authorities arrested him twice, but he was never convicted. The foreigners never arrested him, but they did convict him - albeit in the first instance. For decades now, Spasić has been a frequent guest of the media where, as if on assignment, he criticizes the past and praises the current government. He worked as a detective, journalist and published two books. Precisely because of what he writes and says, Spasić caused more trouble for himself than any domestic or foreign enemy.

The murder of Enver Hadri

A new trial is just starting, and everyone is spreading fake news

Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drašković were not sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for the murder of Enver Hadri, as reported by almost all Serbian media

Jovanjica "strictly confidential"

Covering up the note about the attempted bribery on behalf of Vučić

The higher public prosecutor's office misled the public with an official announcement that the official note that inspector Slobodan Milenkovic, who discovered Jovanjic, was offered a bribe was "strictly confidential". Vladimir Đukanović, SNS MP and lawyer for the owner of Jovanjica, now claims that Milenkovic does not want to testify in the proceedings in which he is suing "Radar" journalist Vuk Cvijić

Spying on the phones of opposition politicians

You talk, we listen

People's deputies Marinika Tepić (SSP), Miroslav Aleksić (NPS) and Radomir Lazović (ZLF) speak for "Vreme" when they first suspected that their every word was going to the secret services and that the regime was abusing that information. Although their privacy is threatened even when they are in their own home and when it comes to their health problems, they have remained silent for years. They say they were overcome by the fear of having their words twisted in public and of being stigmatized as paranoid.

Serbian-Russian relations

The shadow of the Kremlin over Belgrade

Moscow's influence in Serbia today is primarily the result of three phenomena: the issue of Kosovo's status, Serbia's energy dependence, as well as the existence of a majority pro-Russian orientation of the public even after the aggression against Ukraine, which includes the actions of the (pro) Russian media. As reported by the media, Serbia is one of the few European countries that has allowed Russian official media (Sputnik, RT - Russia Today) to operate on its territory. In addition, some of the most watched Serbian TV stations with a national frequency, such as TV Happy, have specialized daily shows whose content is in the service of Russian propaganda.

Chinese-Serbian secrets

From falling canopy to human rights

The Serbian authorities constantly point out that they are bound by an "iron friendship" with the Chinese. The loans that Serbia takes from China are presented as investments. Little is known about these loans, as well as what consequences debtors can expect if they do not return the money. It is presented to the public that all over Serbia we do business and build jointly with the Chinese, from sewerage, through ironworks, mines, smelters, tire factories, parts of highways and high-speed railways, all the way to the construction of projects related to the national stadium and Expo 2027.

Interview: Milena Božović, prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade

Law on Delay and Shifting of Liability

"We will have privileged defendants. Those will be the ones the prosecutor decides to hear first. The first defendant will be heard without the presence of the other defendants and their lawyers. In the case of the second defendant in the order of hearing, during the testimony, only the first defendant who was heard with his lawyer will be able to be present. Therefore, when the last one comes to testify at the prosecutor's office, everyone who has already been heard with their defense attorneys will be able to follow his presentation and ask him questions, and he had no right to ask them those questions. How the prosecutor will determine and according to which criteria which defendant will be heard first, and who will be heard second or third or last, is not prescribed.

Interview: Zdenko Tomanović, lawyer

It is legitimate to defend yourself against injustice on the street

The top of the government is spreading fear and panic about revolutions, about some "Beomajdan", about blood on the streets, in order to actually open up space for an attack on freedom of speech. They see a danger in Serbia from freedom of speech. They are trying to convince a free people to give up their freedoms and rights. Their campaign Let's close ranks now to defend Serbia it is intense because they want to convince people that it is justified to target citizens, develop insecurity and spread self-censorship. It spreads the fear that someone will pick you up at the airport, in a store, in the aisle and that they could bring you under some criminal charge

Trial of Belgrade inspectors

"Revenge for Jovanjica": Marijuana plantation covered with hookah smoke

The trial of the inspectors of the Department for the fight against drugs of the Belgrade police who participated in the exposure of Jovanjica on the charge of abuse of office is riddled with numerous contradictions. The judge will not even hear about the largest marijuana plantation in Europe that seems to disappear in the smoke of hookahs that are at the center of this case.

Comment

Attempt of "fat payment" of N1 journalist Ana Novaković

"You want to write an article after this and I'll pay you handsomely?" This was asked by the father of Benjamin Hasanagić, the journalist of the N1 television station Ana Novaković, who is being treated as the injured party in the trial against the inspector of the Department for the fight against drugs of the Belgrade police.

Research "Time"

Revenge for "Jovanjica"

Who dared to illegally eavesdrop on the inspectors for the fight against drugs who discovered Jovanjica and arrested Koluvia, as well as to include such conversations from illegal eavesdropping among the evidence in the proceedings against them

Smailagic case

Not everything is black and white

Basketball player Alen Smailagic (pictured) was known by many sports fans until now, and recently the whole public knows about him as a "victim". So the tabloids state that he was "racketed", "fled from Serbia" and "went through threats, blackmail and agony" because of which, allegedly, his career is failing and the like. Smailagic remained mysterious to the media and said that he cannot talk about everything he went through

"Vreme" investigates

What can you do when you are the son of Zvezdan Terzić

After a series of failures by the police and the prosecutor's office in the investigation, justice for the football manager Uroš Janković - the victim of the Terzić brothers - remained slow and unattainable, and for the bullies it was blind... It just felt them. Thus, Kostadin and Nikša Terzić, the sons of the general manager of FC Crvena zvezda Zvezdan, as well as Luka Kurtović, the owner of the club "Nana", entered into plea agreements with the Second Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade. They were sentenced to probation and fines for a number of crimes. Instead of gathering evidence, "Vreme" reveals how the police officers and the prosecutor's office made mistakes: they never heard the main witness, there is no footage of the beating from surveillance cameras, and several people participated in the attack, while only three were prosecuted... At the time of the attack and months later, Nikša Terzić remained working at BIA

Trial for a mass crime in Dubona and Mali Orašje

The secret of weapons in the darkness of the massacre

Mysteries about military trucks, as well as controversies and changes to the defendant's testimony about weapons marked the beginning of the trial of Uroš Blažić, accused of killing nine and wounding 4 people on May 12 last year. Because of this massacre, Blažić's father Radašin, who is otherwise a military person, is on trial. He was accused of illegally acquiring a large amount of weapons, and his DNA was found on the weapon that Uroš Blažić used in the massacre

Comment

The system recognized the homeless man, but the murdered one

How three hanged kids killed a homeless man in New Belgrade, and the police didn't think it was worth investigating at first. So, how easily and far from the eyes of the system did one man go

"Jovanjica" Affair

We'll eat more

Live action thriller. The "Jovanjica" case became crazier than the TV series that was broadcast at the time of Koluvia's arrest. The court proceedings of "Jovanjica One" and "Two" have become unified. This means that from now on, eighteen defendants will be tried together for the production of drugs - marijuana and skank. What will Serbia see sooner: the verdict for Jovanjica or the legalization of cannabis? With so many defendants, the trial could last "from here to eternity"

Terrorist act and secret services

Why one gendarme had to correct the failure of the entire security sector

It is an open secret that the police department in charge of combating terrorism, as well as the agents of the Security and Information Agency, have been following opposition politicians and activists instead of extremists and potential terrorists for years. Therefore, the question arises whether the Wahhabi plans are encouraged by the lack of professionalism in the security sector at the expense of strengthening the party cadres? It is suspected that the attack was prepared for a long time. But what was the BIA doing during that time, and what were the managers from the counter-terrorism department? The answers are few and full of illogicality

An encouraging case

Victory over abuse of the profession

The first-instance panel of the Court of Honor of the Medical Chamber of Serbia declared a group of psychiatrists who declared a mentally healthy person insane - a respected world expert, Dr. Mark Lens - responsible for breach of professional duty and reputation, and a disciplinary measure was imposed in the form of a public reprimand.

Comment

In addition to Inspector Slobodan Milenkovic and a child in the crosshairs

Inspector Slobodan Milenkovic, who exposed the "Jovanjic" case and for whose murder was paid about half a million euros, has been persecuted by the government, BIA, criminals and regime tabloids for more than four years. Since yesterday, in addition to him, a girl who was with him in a cafe in Belgrade has also been targeted

"Vremena" investigation: How the attack on Peđa Voštinić was covered up

A person with two warrants and mysterious minutes

By reviewing police reports, "Vreme" reveals that the behavior of eight drivers and passengers from three vehicles is actually important for the incident from six months ago near Kraljevo, when Predrag Voštinić from the Local Front was hit by a car and seriously injured. We also learn that it was hidden from the public that there was a man with two warrants in one of those cars. You will find out why it is important to determine exactly to the minute when the "traffic accident" happened

Chronicle

A knife was found with a student of another elementary school in Vračar

The student of the seventh grade of the Witchcraft School "Sveti Sava" has already given a statement to the police, and the school has informed the parents about the measures taken, it was confirmed for "Vreme". The knife was found at the school on Monday

"Time" reveals

A school in Belgrade has been covering up the mercury spill for days

Tens of grams of liquid heavy metal mercury, as "Vreme" reveals, spilled last Monday during the performance of an experiment in the laboratory of the High School of Chemical and Food Technology on Banovo Brdo in Belgrade. The management covered up the case for days, so a large number of students had classes in that laboratory immediately after the incident.

"Vreme" investigates

There is no justice for the victims of the government's pets

After three years, the trial of the driver who killed a woman not far from Loznica and ran away began. The deceased Ivanka Mićić was the mother of a policewoman, but... Obstruction does not choose. Cover-ups are what the relatives of the deceased have been experiencing since the beginning of the accident and the investigation. They are fighting for a grain of justice, against local powerful people and a disputed judiciary, with the help of lawyers, the media, billboards, protests... The news about the arrest of the suspected driver was not reported to them by the police, nor the prosecutor, but by the President of the State of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. And justice began to appear. But... Vladimir Đukanović, an official of the SNS, the ruling party, became one of the defendant's lawyers. Police officers who tried to investigate the case were fired or replaced. The weekly "Vreme" reveals that even doctor Branislav Nestorović and his "knights and dragons" rebelled against the move of the family of the deceased woman. Then the whole case moved to the courtroom. However, due to the close relationship between the defendant's family and the judges in Loznica, the proceedings have not even started properly, and justice is no longer in sight.

Jovanjica, documents

Police and religious comrades of Predrag Koluvija

"Vreme" exclusively publishes the testimony of the former Belgrade police drug inspector Marko Raičević given before the Prosecutor's Office, in which he describes how for years he was friends with Predrag Koluvija and the accused secret agents of the BIA and VOA, and how, as only life can do, they became organized religious group. It is concluded that while Raičević's colleagues from the Fourth Department were gathering information about Koluvija and planning how to raid Jovanjica, he went on pilgrimage tours to Hilandar with the now accused

Testimony of inspector Marko Raičević

Former Belgrade police drug inspector Marko Raičević was questioned as a witness before the deputy prosecutor for organized crime on July 23, 2020, a few weeks after members of the BIA and the MUP ended up in custody, while a member of the VOA escaped arrest, as accused of being Coluvija's "ring of protection", for the case of Jovanjica two. The weekly "Vreme" exclusively publishes the allegations from the indictment for Jovanjica dva in connection with Raičević's testimony