"Phantom women are most often worn by bandits, bank robbers and professional killers," Milan Škulić, professor of criminal procedure law at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, told Politika.
Police special forces, on the other hand, wear phantoms "to avoid revenge, but also because of the psychological effect of instilling fear in those they arrest", explains the professor.
The conclusion follows that the members Gendarmerie i Intervention units when dealing with pensioners, high school students, students, professors or actors at street blockades, they wear phantoms, i.e. masks over their faces, either because they are afraid of their revenge, or because they want to intimidate them.
Really, why do special forces cover their faces these days
According to the service rules, they would not have to wear them, especially because of the high heat and long shifts on the hot asphalt, but they received such an order.
That stupid order must have come from the courtier top of the police because when the self-proclaimed supreme commander Aleksandar Vučić, this time in the role of the supreme prosecutor and judge, ruled that ordinary citizens who block the streets because of his authority are terrorists, then the special forces must accordingly cover their faces - students are like terrorists, and policemen are afraid of their revenge.
And maybe they wear phantoms because not all of them are real police officers. Or because they are embarrassed to be recognized. Or they are not ashamed at all, but that they can beat and arrest incognito.
Whatever the reason, it's not a clean job when trained special forces face to face with ordinary civilians and have to cover their faces.
The birth of a phantom from burlesque power
Serbia has already become a phantom state, after so many tragic and stormy events, back in 2016. At that time, around thirty masked people illegally demolished buildings in Hercegovačka street and harassed passers-by in a night action. The police did not respond to the panicked calls for help. Everything is documented and proven. Aleksandar Vučić has repeatedly said that he knows who ordered the illegal demolition and who is the gang that carried it out.
There were no legal consequences, and the Prosecutor's Office should have at least heard Vučić Aleksandar and determined whether he is a liar, or whether he is protecting perpetrators of criminal acts. Then, since nothing happened, the legal system of the Republic of Serbia collapsed, practically without civil resistance.
Everything that followed, all the unpunished criminal acts of the incumbents of the progressive government under the command of Vučić, is a consequence of that: once such an obvious violation of the law with obvious order-givers went unpunished, the top of the SNS got stronger and began to trample the laws and the Constitution as they pleased.
All the way to the fact that the president of the country these months declares students and professors to be terrorists, and police officers put masks on their faces so that they can beat and arrest them incognito, as if they really are.
