There is no evidence that the people are God knows what kind of commandos or agents. Not even if they're too smart.
Before the "action" at the beginning of September, they went shopping pig's heads with a peasant in Normandy, in the north of France. He saw that they came in a car with Serbian registrations.
Provocative action, when pig heads were placed in front of several mosques in Paris, was captured by multiple surveillance cameras. The ringleaders and participants were quickly identified.
Who are the Serbs who placed pig's heads in mosques?
Finally, on Monday, eleven suspects were arrested in Velika Plana and Belgrade in connection with the sabotage in Paris, which caused alarm among the Muslims there, and local and state officials took them under protection.
As stated, the same people are probably involved in anti-Semitic provocations in France, but also involved in similar actions in Berlin.
Back in June, three Serbian citizens were arrested on suspicion of defacing a memorial dedicated to the Holocaust, two synagogues and a kosher restaurant in Paris with green paint.
Traces to Russia
The investigators also do not think that these are commandos or God knows what kind of agents - but simply people who saw an opportunity for easy money, without thinking much about who hired them and for what purposes.
According to Le Monde sources, the French investigation believes that the Russian GRU service is pulling the strings.
These are not the first suspicions that Serbian citizens are being used for Russian "hybrid operations" in Western Europe. Admittedly, those of the lowest intensity, for dusting jobs.
In December, three people were arrested in Germany - citizens of Serbia, BiH and Germany - who allegedly blocked the exhaust pipes of around 270 cars across Germany with pur-pen, often leaving stickers that were supposed to indicate that it was the action of supporters of the Greens.
As "Spiegel" wrote, one of the defendants stated that they were recruited by a Russian, promising one hundred euros per damaged car.
It can be more serious than that - two people were recently arrested in Serbia under serious suspicion that they organized training camps for Romanian and Moldovan citizens so that they would oppose the police in possible riots after the elections in Moldova, held on Sunday (September 28).
In Chisinau they are also pointing the finger at Moscow.
Vučić's smoke signals to the West
It is no secret that Russia is conducting numerous operations in the West - after all, there is also a very hot war going on in Ukraine. From spreading fake news to allegedly spying on airports and military facilities with drones.
The more interesting question is whether Serbia has been resolved or is forced to deal more concretely with that part of those operations that go through its territory.
You could read that between the lines the other day, when Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić spoke for the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Interestingly, he wanted to give that interview precisely because it bothered him that the German newspaper called Vučić and Russian President Vladimir Putin "allies".
Vučić said that the "most offensive step" against Serbia was made by the Russian SVR service when it announced that Serbia was arming Ukraine. "I am a political veteran, I understand the language of such announcements," said Vučić.
Moscow must also understand the language of such arrests in Serbia. And they understand the same language in the West.
It could be that, in the midst of a rebellion that he fails to calm at home, Vučić is sending smoke signals to the West. Which, paradoxically, he also claims to destroy.
But if there is something the Vučić regime has insisted on all these years, it is the geopolitical position of "neither there nor here", a see-saw in which the president constantly suggests that he "loves" Russia, but is not a Russian man. And that it is better for the West to respect him as such and work with him.
