Attack against Vazura: No custody for the leader of the Janissaries?

According to what Insajder.net learned at the First Basic Prosecution, custody was requested for only two of the attackers on the director of the Partizan Football Club (FK), in which a bodyguard and the club's driver were seriously injured. The Prosecution confirmed the information that custody was requested for R.D. and B.V.. This obviously means that no custody was requested for the third attacker who is seen in the surveillance video.

11. maj 2016.

Insajder has learned that the police arrested Aleksandar Stankovic, a.k.a. Sale Mutavi (Sale the Mute), Veljko Belivuk, a.k.a. Velja, and Darko Ristic, a.k.a. Meda (Teddy Bear), for the attack on Partizan director Milos Vazura, in which the club's driver and a bodyguard were seriously injured.

After the pressing of criminal charges for violent behavior and for this attack, after the interrogation of the arrested which ended just a while ago, and the interviewing of the plaintiffs, and bearing in mind the statements given to the police by the witnesses, the video-footage and the written records of the line-up identification, the Prosecution decided to request that R.D. and B.V. are remanded in custody, and the pre-trial judge of the First Basic Court is about to make the decision, Insajder learned at the First Basic Prosecution.

On the video recording of the attack, made by the club's surveillance camera, which unveils all the brutality of this supporter group, the tall man seen giving the first blow is Belivuk, while the second, shorter man, who was also hitting the bodyguard, is Ristic.

Stankovic, for whom the Prosecution did not request the remanding in custody, according to our information, was sentenced to a five-year and ten months' prison term in 2011, for drug trafficking and arms possession, and the sentence came into effect in 2013.

Stankovic postponed the serving of the sentence three times, on the basis of alleged health problems. Despite that, he attended matches and, in one period, he even sat in the VIP box, guarding certain members of the management of FK Partizan.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic informed the public about this arrest. The unusual thing in this case is that, to this day, the police have issued no statement on either the attack, or the arrest. Stefanovic said that it took the police ten days to find the attackers.

In an attempt to learn at least the initials of the arrested, we phoned the Interior Ministry's (MUP) Bureau for Cooperation with the Media, but we were told that they could not even tell us that, because of the Law on the protection of personal data. In all other statements made by MUP in the past few days, the initials of the arrested were always mentioned.

Although the attackers and their brutality are clearly visible on the surveillance video, their names were not made public until April 30th, when the Informer daily published the name of one of the attackers, Stankovic, who is also the leader of a sub-group of supporters of Partizan, called the Janissaries.

The Janissaries group is characteristic for the fact that its members used to be supporters of other clubs, which is how they got their name (Janissaries - the elite units of the Ottoman Empire, consisting of men who were originally Christians, but were taken from their families at a young age and brought up to become Turkish soldiers).