Victims
Nikola Milić (14), Aleksandar Milovanović (17), Marko Mitrović (17), Kristina (18) and Milan Panić (22), Lazar Milovanović (19), Nemanja Stevanović (21), Dalibor Todorović (24) were killed in the massacre. and Petar Mitrović (25), while several of them were seriously wounded.
The bodies of young people lay in blood on the road and streets, riddled with automatic rifles and pistols. The police chased the killer for hours until the day after the crime, they found him in the village of Vinjište near Kragujevac, in the household of his relatives. During the search of that household, she found a large amount of hidden weapons, ammunition and mine-explosive devices. It was just the beginning of the mystery of the weapon. During the inspection and search of the houses where Blažić lived, as well as his parents, arsenals of weapons saw the light of day and stunned the public. A year and a half later, neither the victims nor their relatives nor the public received an answer - where did Blažići get so many weapons and what the army took from those houses during the investigation - that has remained a secret to this day.
Uroš Blažić, the defendant for mass murder, changed his testimony. It is suspected that he is trying to protect his father, who works in the Ministry of Defense, with untruths. The institutions are silent on the claims of witnesses about military trucks that came to Blažić's house while the blood of the murdered was still drying and took "something" out of it.
CHANGE OF THE STATEMENT OF THE ACCUSED OF MURDER
Uroš Blažić told the prosecution that at the age of 18, i.e. two years before the crime, he moved to live in a house in the Varovnice neighborhood near the village of Šepšin. "The house I live in has a basement, first floor, three rooms and an attic," said Blažić at the time. "After about two years, that is, sometime in the spring of 2021 and in the fall of the same year, in the attic, under the boards, I found a 'Kalashnikov'. It was covered with glass wool. I was searching on social networks and saw that it was about that production model 'Zastava'. I also found a cumulative mine, two 'spoon' hand grenades, there was also a large amount of ammunition for the 7,62 millimeter caliber, only some were larger and some were smaller. I also found a smaller 'tetejac' gun, I'm sure it had a number on it. There was also a gun that shoots glowing bullets.”
Blažić, as he himself said, did not inform anyone about the weapons he found, not even his father, who is a military officer, and he explained this by saying that "he did not want to be criminally responsible and go to prison, so that it would not be thought that he bought it and put that weapon in some kind of distribution and further sale". He also stated that he occasionally liked to go to the shooting range, as well as which shooting range he went to to practice shooting.
However, he told a completely different story at the trial. He repeatedly emphasized that the weapon was his and that his father had no connection with it. According to the Telegraf portal, Blažić said in court that his love for weapons came to him in 2020. "I lived in a house in Šepšin and for the first time I had a large amount of money to buy something for myself," said Blažić. "I didn't want to come of age, I felt insignificant and threatened. I bought a revolver and accessories. I regretted buying it because it didn't satisfy everything I wanted. I realized that I could hurt myself with it, not protect myself. The weapons were not bought all at once.”
He said that "from his environment, he saw that it is pointless to have a legal weapon", because his father was deprived of the small-caliber and hunting rifle that he legally owned, "because of some unfounded report". When asked by the judge what he wanted a weapon for, he said that he did not feel safe, and that he did not want a legal weapon so that it would not be "taken away from him just like that".
"I had to see how the weapon works," continued Blažić. "I put the frame in the basement and then the vicious cycle of my acquiring weapons began. I don't know if I expected some security, I don't know what was in my brain. As a mouse drags cheese, I dragged weapons. I thought, when I have an automatic, then I'm better, that I need the whole kit, silencer. I wanted to have one gun, and in a year I collected a real military arsenal of weapons."
He said that he later bought a "Tokarev 33" from which he shot on the fateful night. He also, in a completely calm tone, as if he were talking about some everyday matter, explained how he tried out the pistols and said that he did not invest a single dinar in anything other than weapons: "My father has nothing to do with it. This is a professional officer who has never talked about weapons in front of his family, let alone knowing that I have guns and bombs. Especially since I'm his child. Not that he didn't know... He wasn't interested, I got that impression even as a child. After that, he worked as a civilian in the General Staff and the Ministry."
The lawyer of the injured parties pointed out that Blažić's testimony contradicts what he said in the prosecution and that he is obliged to explain whether he found the weapon in the attic or whether he bought it himself.
"Most of the things I said in the prosecution are incorrect," answered Blažić. "In that state, after everything that happened and sleeping on the floor in the station, I was not able to tell this reconstruction that I gave now - from the first gun - so then I just said that I found it. Everything I said today is the absolute truth and I will swear to it. The fact that it was found in the attic now shows how naive the story is. At that time, I did not know that young people would suffer because of it, I looked at those weapons in a completely different way then. Today's defense is on point."
He then said that he did not want to answer further questions because he "tried to tell the whole truth about the origin of the weapon" and he did not want something to be "taken out of context and turned against his father".
photo: TanjugDOES CHANGING THE STATEMENT PROTECT THE FATHER: Uroš Blažić
WHAT SECRET IS THE MURDERER'S FATHER HIDDING??
Radiša Blažić, the father of the mass murderer Uroš, is employed in the Ministry of Defense, that is, in the Serbian Army, and as he told earlier in the prosecution, he has the rank of colonel since 2008, as the head of the Military Archives in Belgrade. He is accused of having acquired a large quantity of weapons without authorization, and his DNA was found on the weapons that Uroš Blažić used to commit the crime during the analysis. During his defense, according to the Nova.rs portal, he denied the criminal acts he was accused of. He did the same during the hearing at the prosecutor's office, saying that he did not know where the weapons found in his house came from. He claimed that he showed the license for some of the weapons to the members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and that he did not know that the weapon for which he did not have a license was in the house.
During the massacre, Uroš Blažić killed young people with an automatic rifle and a pistol. The DNA of his father Radiša was found on the weapon that the younger Blažić used. Numerous families of those killed spoke about the use of weapons in the Blažić family. They claimed that the use of weapons is mandatory at each of their celebrations and that they even shoot in bursts, and that Radiša himself bragged that he owned so many weapons that, if war broke out tomorrow, he could kill half of Dubona.
"Everyone was laughing and no one took it seriously," said Milica Ivković.
THE SECRET ABOUT MILITARY TRUCKS AT THE MASSACRE SITE
The families of those killed during the trial testified that in front of the Blažić family house, on the morning of May 5, 2023, i.e. the day after the massacre, they noticed trucks belonging to the Serbian Army. This information further intrigued the public, bearing in mind that Lieutenant Colonel Radiša Blažić is accused of having illegal weapons in his possession. Locals said that they saw unknown objects taken from Blažić's house.
As evidence for these claims, the lawyers of the families of the killed and wounded at the end of one of the hearings submitted surveillance camera footage showing trucks passing through both villages. Also, some family members pointed out that the killer's family and their property were once protected by the military police, and Milica Ivković, the mother of the wounded Ivan Ivković and the first neighbor of Blažić, said that their neighbor, who lives across the street, saw the trucks.
"It is true that three military trucks came to Radiša Blažić's house after the massacre. The military police were also there, and our police were not allowed to approach. Who knows what they took and took from the house. The neighbor, across the street, was chased away when they saw him in front of the house..." Milica Ivković said, among other things, as reported by the Nova portal.
Also, the lawyers of the families of the injured said that the families deserve to know the truth, and it was requested to determine if it is true, and if so, why these trucks were in the house of Lt. Col. Radiša Blažić. Also, the serial number of the automatic rifle from which Uroš Blažić fired was discovered, and the parents claim that it belonged to the Serbian Armed Forces, so the defense attorneys of the injured asked to determine which unit.
What was the survey committee not allowed to discover?
After mass protests by citizens and at the request of the democratic opposition, on July 18, 2023, the National Assembly of Serbia formed an Inquiry Committee whose task was to determine the facts and circumstances that led to the two massacres at the beginning of that May - at the elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikar" and villages in the vicinity of Mladenovac - where 19 people lost their lives.
However, the truth was never found because the Inquiry Committee did not even manage to start its work. A few days later, the Parliament of Serbia announced that it was suspending the work of the Inquiry Committee to determine the facts and circumstances of the two mass murders. As stated in the announcement of the parliament, this was done after the request of the group of lawyers of the families of the victims of crimes in the Belgrade elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikar".
