Everything looks like a black and white noir film.
It starts with Chief of Police of the Capital City organizes a meeting between two feuding parties mafia in an elite restaurant, emptied for the occasion. Before it happened, serious messages, assurances, promises were exchanged... Both people consulted with consular offices and other collaborators. Finally, they both agree - the head of the metropolitan police has enormous authority.
Unexpected or planned, one of those criminals pulled out a gun and in a flurry of insults shot the other one. Tables are knocked over, glasses are broken, wine and blood are mixed, while everyone's ears are ringing from the shots fired in the closed space.
What now? Maybe in shock or completely calm, police chief he quickly sets out with his bodyguards - also officials - to help the perpetrator of the murder. Maybe nothing like this was planned, but they have no choice, everyone present depends on each other, everyone is threatened with prison...
That's why they clean the traces of blood from the floor, buy shell casings that can be found without crawling into every corner, take the body out the side door and put it in the trunk of the perpetrator, look down the street, throw away at least one phone. All this goes on in a hurry with cursing, nervousness, tension... In the end, one more time before parting ways - nothing happened, everything is fine, we all get along. The police chief is not just anybody, he will sort out the whole jumbo.
Was it like this? It is not yet known. However, it is known that in this context Veselin Milic arrested, the chief of the Belgrade police and several other persons. They are all on this one or otherwise related to the disappearance Aleksandar Nešović Baja, who is suspected of being liquidated in the restaurant "27" in Senjak. Saint Bosque was also arrested - he is allegedly the perpetrator of the murder.
What exactly it was - as it is already said - the investigation should show.
Blood, bullets and arrests in Senjak: The disappearance of Aleksandar Nešović Baja
Spot the difference.
Veselin Milić is a powerful name in the MUP. From 2013 to 2018, he was the head of the Belgrade Police Department, the most important and numerous in the country. There he stood out in the affair of the illegal demolition and mistreatment of citizens in Savamala 2016. - despite numerous calls from the people of Belgrade that they are being targeted by thugs with phantom girls, the police under Milić's command did not go to the field and help them. However, it did not help him that the then Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic do not remove 2018 from office. More precisely, he was promoted to assistant director of the police.
Photo: Tanjug/Miloš MilivojevićFormer Minister of the Interior Nebojša Stefanović: Gljajnuo then disappeared
Since then, open war between Milić and Stefanović lasted for two years. In 2020, Milić returned to the much more important position of head of the Belgrade police only when the minister became politically inactive.
Otherwise, he is known for his skillful political maneuvering within the MUP, but also outside it. It is also well connected with various structures of the progressive regime. His 195-square-meter apartment in a luxurious building in Dedinje, first built, and then legalized without any difficulty, testifies to how skillfully he navigated there. The price per square meter was slightly more than 6.000 euros, and Milić's salary at the time was around 177,000 dinars.
"Government Affairs"
Whatever his role in the disappearance of Nešović, the current affair clearly shows the connection between the regime, the police and the mafia. There are no principles, only money. Something else is also clear. And that is that without those connections, they would not be able to function at all Chaciland, beating legions, rocket-powered enrichment, cover-up of unsung affairs like "Jovanjice" and other "state affairs". Honest cops like Slobodan Milenkovic and Dusan Mitić after the discovery of the largest fur plantation in Europe, they are harassed and fear for their lives, while those with dirty badges get rich and prosper. This is nothing new, but it has never exploded in the public's face like now.
Milić is certainly a loyalist, but not a super-loyalist like Mark Kricka. Perhaps some believe that Vučić indirectly criticized him, claiming that during the impressive protest on March 15, '25. he could not rely on most of the police in Belgrade.
Belgrade police chief Veselin Milić was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Nešović in Senjak
Dirty badges
However, Milić is not the only policeman with a dirty badge, nor is he the only one involved in mafia negotiations and businesses. The question therefore is - could the regime also have this affair - from which there is only damage - strangle in a stamp?
It seems not. Too many people are involved, and Milić himself has numerous enemies in the MUP. This means that in the police there are numerous factions with special interests, each of which works for the other's head. In this context, a line of contenders for Milić's position has already formed.
Photo: FoNet/Instagram/ivicadacicPartners in government affairs: Aleksandar Vučić, Ivica Dačić and Miloš Vučević
Likewise, we should not expect a significant fight against crime and corruption in the police. On the contrary – damage control is already underway. Its course will depend on the relationship between the warring police factions and the needs of the Vučić regime. And when it comes to that, progressives can always remember that the Minister of the Interior is a socialist Ivica Dacic. For now, we should expect numerous details from the police about Milić, but by no means the essence.
And it lies in the fact that corruption kills. Equally in the tragedy of Novi Sad and the MUP of Serbia.
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