A veteran helped students, then received a mysterious visit

Sinisa Jevtic, veteran of the 125th Motorized Brigade, who was wounded in 1999 in the battles at the watchtower "Baskets", and now he supports it with his colleagues student protests, on Monday (March 17) in the morning, two men and one woman entered the yard of the house in Kruševac, who introduced themselves as "police" and asked his wife where he was.

"They asked if I live there and where I am right now, how long I have been away and when I will return. They came in a civilian car, that woman was holding a pile of papers in her hands," Jevtic told "Vreme".

"My wife told them that I have been in Belgrade for seven days, and she doesn't know when I will come. She asked them what the problem was, why they were looking for me, that woman told her that it was nothing serious, that they should have a conversation. After they left, my wife informed me immediately," he says.

Jevtić adds that they didn't ask for his phone number, but just wrote it down from the door of the van. "It's strange to me that they copy my number, when I know they have it, because they called me before because of my veteran activities. And it's not the first time they intimidate me, they come in vehicles, they go around the house."

When his wife informed him, Jevtić called the police department in Kruševac, introduced himself and explained the case, and received an answer that the police were not looking for him, but that it was possible that they were plainclothes inspectors or members of the Security Information Agency (BIA), and that one of them would probably call me.

Until Tuesday, however, no one called him. Jevtić does not know who those people were because they did not present themselves with identification.

The reason for the sonic boom post?

He speculates that the possible reason for his two Facebook posts is Fr sonic cannon.

"I was not directly hit by that device, but a side impact, so I was in the 'Manjej' park, and when I saw the chaos, I told them three or four times that there was no reason for panic and chaos. And then I said 'let's pump, let's pump'", he says.

"I didn't mention the sound cannon or what happened. And the tensions subsided. The guards asked me to speak, so I climbed up on the planter and spoke," Jevtić said, adding that the people he spoke with said they had the feeling that planes and tanks were coming at them.

How they helped the police

Jevtić and his war comrades, together with other veterans, kept a human shield on Nikola Pašić Square and towards the Parliament and in Kneza Miloša Street, but they were constantly on the move, where there was a need to react.

"We were mostly from Knez Miloš to Krunska, because the boys from Pionirski Park wanted to deal with the protesting students. And there were a dozen of them in the crowd who came to provoke. We quickly neutralized them, handcuffed them and handed them over to the police," he illustrated.

Jevtić also said that they begged the students not to provoke the Gendarmerie, which was in Pionirski Park to prevent conflicts, and they listened to them.

"The people from Public Order and Peace thanked me for the quick reaction of the veterans, and they even once begged me via text messages to send 'reinforcements' where there was a danger that the boys would carry out an attack, and that's what we did. And those people had excellent communication with all parts of the veteran groups, so everything went without incident. That's why I'm surprised that some supposed police are looking for me in Kruševac," concluded Jevtić.

Tireless fighter

Speaking about his war journey, and in 1998 and 1999 he was a soldier on regular duty, Jevtić said that on April 16 at Košare, he received 16 shrapnel in his body from a mortar shell, he was transported to the Pristina hospital, from which, at his own request, he was discharged after seven days, and returned to the unit, but they did not let him go to Košare, but put him at a checkpoint in Vitomirici near Peja.

Since he did not receive a certificate of discharge, but requested it only afterwards, the first medical commission estimated that he had a 30 percent disability, but the second one reduced it to less than 20 percent, and therefore he does not have the status of war invalid.

Jevtić is a participant and one of the leaders of all the protests of war veterans, and he was at all the big protests, from the strike of war veterans in Pionirski Park a few years ago, to the current ones - from Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Niš, to Belgrade. "I continue on," he said.