The hero of this text was an intelligence officer of the former State Security Service of former Yugoslavia. He was allegedly hired by the UDBA to organize criminals to attack and kill problematic emigrants around the world. Serbian authorities arrested him twice, but he was never convicted. The foreigners never arrested him, but they did convict him - albeit in the first instance. For decades now, Spasić has been a frequent guest of the media where, as if on assignment, he criticizes the past and praises the current government. He worked as a detective, journalist and published two books. Precisely because of what he writes and says, Spasić caused more trouble for himself than any domestic or foreign enemy.
Bozidar Boza Spasic he spent 14 years in the Service. Since 1993, that is, for more than three decades, Spasić has been mourning the past in his media appearances. He brags about how he and his colleagues once organized successful actions, i.e. murders of Yugoslav emigration, while the ghosts of the past haunt him through trials in European cities.
As an operative Federal SDB, was in charge of the fight against extreme terrorist emigration. He was the head of a special team that carried out almost a hundred special operations across Europe.
According to the official biography, after leaving the Service in 1993, he opened the detective agency SIA — Serbian Investigation Agency, in which he was engaged until his retirement in 2007. Now, even that retirement remained somewhat controversial for him. In some interviews, Spasić says that he was dismissed from the Service by mail, sometime in 1993, after his arrest at the border crossing with Slovenia.
In some other interviews, Spasić claims that he had a heart attack around the same year in 1993 and that he went on disability pension after that. In the same year, he wrote his first book Death is their trade.: documents of the Ustasha terror. Then another one that attracted much more public attention. In 2000, he wrote a novelized memoir about his experiences working in the Service Talking weasel: basic assumptions of the fight against terrorism.
Because of what the "weasel" talked about in the book, Spasić still has problems to this day. Namely, at the beginning of January, the news appeared that in Begija, for the second time, that is, he was finally convicted for the murder of the Albanian Enver Hadri. As the "Brussels Times" reported in the deleted text, Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drašković were found guilty of committing the crime, and Božidar Spasić of ordering it.
The news turned out to be fake. It is true that the new trial of Serbian citizens Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drašković for the murder of Hadri began only on January 9. As reported by the Belgian news agency Belga, the jury for the new trial was chosen by lot in Brussels. The case will be heard by a jury of five men and seven women.
Enver Hadri was a Kosovo political leader and was killed by a shot to the head on February 25, 1990 when he stopped his car in front of a traffic light in Saint-Gilles.
By the way, Veselin Vukotić (72) and Andrija Drašković (60) were sentenced in absentia - but in November 2016 in Brussels - to life imprisonment for the assassination of Enver Hadri. The jury then determined that these two acted on the orders of the secret services of the former Yugoslavia, more precisely on the orders of Chief Inspector Božidar Spasić. At that time, the court also sentenced the latter to life imprisonment. Then, in 2017, the second-instance court in Brussels overturned the verdict. Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drašković subsequently appealed and now a new trial has begun.
UDBA AND LIQUIDATIONS OF EMIGRANTS
The last murder of the famous Udba abroad before the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia was the liquidation of the Albanian emigrant from Pec, Enver Hadri, the president of the emigrant separatist organization "Kosovo World Alliance". At the end of February 1990, Hadri left the apartment where he lived in Brussels accompanied by a woman, who later turned out to be his lover, a German who, according to some sources, worked at the NATO headquarters in Mons. The two got into a Golf with official NATO plates and set off through the streets of Brussels. However, Hadri did not notice that from the moment he started, another vehicle was following him:
"Our agents are going after Hadri, who no longer has a chance to escape from them. The weapon is drawn and rests on the assassin's lap. The driver in the car with him is an experienced agent and knows Brussels very well. He is also a 'cleaner'. They followed Hadri's 'Golf' for a full kilometer by car, which turned into the large and wide Rue de Albani boulevard. The assassin asks the driver to equate their car with Hadri's. For a while they walk side by side, but Hadri doesn't pay attention to it. Around 17:XNUMX p.m., both cars, side by side, stopped at a traffic light... The assassin gestured to Hadri to open the window because he allegedly wanted to ask him something. This one did it. At that moment, a gun appears and two muffled shots are heard. The traffic light turns green, the car with our agents moves further down the avenue, while Hadriyev stays put.
Hadri was hit in the head and just slumped over the steering wheel. Other oncoming cars went around the golf thinking that something was wrong with the car. Thus, enough time was left for the assassin and his driver to get quite far from the scene. When someone did notice a man with a bloody head in a car, the police stopped and blocked off the whole area...", former SDB operative Božidar Spasić described Hadri's liquidation in detail in his book Talking weasel, which was later translated by the Belgians, in which he presented some details that were not even known to the judiciary of that European country.
In his book, Spasić devoted as many as 15 pages to the murder of Hadri, and as he himself wrote, since he had the verbal approval of the then minister, General Petar Gračanin, to prevent the assassination of Slobodan Milosevic, which was being planned by the Albanian emigration, at all costs, he called the counter-action " The talking weasel”. He also describes how he chose collaborators in the Belgrade underground who were ready to deal a triple blow to the Albanian emigration.
The story of Hadri's murder became the subject of writing all the books that dealt with Udba, espionage and secret operations, as well as the story of the "tough guys" who carried out this action.
And that is not the only murder abroad for which investigative bodies interrogated Spasić. Namely, a few years ago, Spasić also gave a statement to the German prosecutor, in the capacity of a witness, regarding the murder of the Croatian dissident Stjepan Đureković.
Đureković was liquidated on June 28, 1983 in Wolfratshausen near Munich, in the former Federal Republic of Germany. He was a prominent businessman of socialist Yugoslavia and one of the directors of the INA oil industry, but in 1982 he emigrated to SR Germany and became associated with the Croatian emigration. Udba accused him of stealing a large amount of oil from INA and of collaborating with Ustasha elements, with the help of the German secret police.
The former heads of the Yugoslav secret service, Josip Perković and Zdravko Mustač, were accused of murdering Đureković and were extradited to Germany in 2014, and were arrested the day after Croatia's accession to the EU, based on a European warrant and a personal request from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
THE MURDER IN NANA AND THE SPLIT IN THE OFFICE
After the murder of Enver Hadri, Belgian investigators launched an investigation, and it led them to the names of Serbs whom they charged as the direct perpetrators. Veselin Vukotić, Darko Ašanin, Andrija Lakonić and Andrija Drašković were under suspicion.
Shortly after Hadri's murder, and in 1990, a month later, at the end of March, Vukotić and Ašanin clashed with Lakonić in "Nana". Lakonić was then killed, and Vukotić immediately fled Serbia, and Ašanin was suspected and arrested for the murder.
After the murder, Miroslav Bižić Biža, an inspector from the Belgrade police who cooperated with the Federal Secret Service and precisely Božo Spasić, arrived at the club. Bižić was later convicted of tampering with evidence during the investigation and helping one suspect escape. During the trial, the police officer Bižić publicly confirmed for the first time the connection between the DB and Belgrade criminals who, as collaborators, killed political emigrants abroad. Ashanin was later acquitted. After the trial, Bižić was dismissed from the service and became a private detective. He was killed by unknown assailants on May 21, 1996 in New Belgrade.
Ashanin was arrested in 1994 in Greece on a warrant from Belgium for the murder of Hadri. However, he was released because there was no evidence. An unknown assailant killed Ashanin with a sniper shot on June 30, 1998 in his cafe in Dedinje.
In 1993, the Serbian secret police arrested Božidar Spasić on suspicion of falsifying official documents when he tried to hand over documents about the politician Janez Janša to colleagues from Slovenia. He was in custody for two days, but proceedings against him were never initiated.
He was also arrested in 1999, after the murder on Ibarska magistrala, when he characterized that case on TV Studio B as domestic, that is, state terrorism. He spent about two weeks in custody, was accused of spreading fake news and was later released.
THE BITICI BROTHERS AND THE LAMENT OVER PETROVI'S VILLAGE
For years, Spasić has been present in the domestic media as a commentator on events of security interest. At one time, he also had original shows for local TV stations. He regularly reported on the successes of the "Golden Bućka Djerdapa" fishermen, but also on the war crimes committed by Serbs against Kosovo Albanians. After the changes on October 5, 2000 and the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, he regularly emphasized that he and his family were also participants in the revolutionary changes.
He claimed that he sent a letter to the President of the FRY, Vojislav Kostunica, in which he suggested that the service in which he worked should no longer exist. He also made several broadcasts about the mass graves of Albanians in Petrovo Selo near Kladovo, in which he spoke condemningly about the refrigerators in the Danube that were full of the bodies of the murdered. As Spasić said, it was he who led the American CNN and German ZDF crews to those places and showed them the graves where the bodies of American citizens of Kosovar origin, the Bitići brothers, were also found. Božidar Spasić was categorical that "Slobodan Milošević should also be tried for all these crimes before the Hague Tribunal".
Absurdly, Spasić used to not be bothered by extraditions to The Hague, but now when it is mentioned that possibly Belgium could request his extradition for the murder of Hadri, the former intelligence officer thanks the current president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, because, as he says, "thank God, the time has passed when this country extradited its citizens to foreign courts".
FROM BORA DRJLAČA TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE OFFICE AND THE STATE
While he was dealing with cases of liquidation of terrorists, beatings, burning of property and looting of documentation of emigrants, agent Spasić, as he boasted, did not let the variety show out of his sight.
"We found Bora Drljača in the tavern 'Evropa', somewhere around the stajja in Munich in 1986. He sang for seven days for five thousand marks! In the tavern, our guest workers, thieves and thieves, gangbusters, snitches of all possible services and the police, drunkards," Spasić told a Belgrade media outlet. However, one drunk orders the partisan song 'Zlatibore, spread the branches'. The niece struggles, but sings her off. After returning to Belgrade, I received a dispatch from Sarajevo. He writes how pop singer Bor Drljača sang Chetnik songs in a pub in Munich. I thought, what is our people to you? I threw the dispatch in the trash can," concluded Boža Spasić.
For the less informed, all those who sang to the Chetnik diaspora abroad, that is, sang Chetnik songs, upon returning to SFRY would be banned from all television and radio stations, of which there were very few by the way. Many singers would deceive themselves and sing for the Chetniks, and later they would be punished when they returned to Yugoslavia.
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