If you follow the news, a week later it's as if nothing happened. As if there was no mafia showdown in Belgrade on the water, as if there was no murdered Filip Ivanovic (33), face with red Interpol arrest warrants.
Especially as if the case did not once again underline the scandal directed by the domestic authorities, services and police.
Jer Ivanovic, member of the Skaljar drug clan, as recently as last December, he tore the leg with which he was awaiting the verdict for murder in Serbia. Since then, it's not known where he is, although he lived bonvivantly in Belgrade on the water where even the neighbors, ordinary citizens, knew who he was.
Last Thursday (October 16), a mystical handover came to his head in that elite neighborhood of progressive Belgrade.
Murder in the presence of the police?
The murder suspect was arrested two hundred meters away and everything indicates that the police were there the whole time, following Ivanović's steps, writes Jelena Zorić in the birthday double issue of "Vremena", which arrives on Thursday (October 23).
And the scandal lies precisely in that - a person on the Interpol warrant cannot be under police surveillance, but must be arrested, says the interlocutor of "Vremen" from the security structures.
"If the police and BIA 'kept an eye' and followed Ivanovic, then it's not about surveillance, but about guarding a criminal," he says. "And now we don't know what is the bigger scandal - whether the fact that the police are guarding criminals or the fact that he was killed in front of their eyes."
Clan nannies
Our well-informed source says it is an open secret that for huge sums of money people from the police and BIA are hired to guard the clansmen.
"In the past, that's how they guarded the blacksmiths, and now the skals. The information that this babysitting of the clans is not done by one of the police officers or secret agents accepting an additional, private job, but everything is organized by official duty, is worrying."
*Read the entire "Vremena" investigation on this topic in the birthday double issue, which is on newsstands from Thursday (October 23). Or, better yet, subscribe now with an epic 35 percent discount that we are giving for the 35th birthday of our weekly
