Regarding the arrest of Belgrade police chief Veselin Milić, MPs Stefan Janjić (SRCE) and Aleksandar Ivanović (NPS), both lawyers by profession, told N1 that the entire case represents an “abnormal situation”.
As Aleksandar Ivanović put it, this is not a matter for lawyers, but for psychiatrists. “After 14 years, what we need are psychiatrists, because we are living in an abnormal system,” the N1 interviewee said. He recalled that, at the beginning of February, several opposition parliamentary groups signed a request for an extraordinary parliamentary session at which a vote of no confidence in the government would be discussed.
“The main issue at the time was the former Army General Staff building case and Minister Nikola Selaković. Back then, it seemed to us like a crucial issue of the sort rarely seen in Europe. Today, however, it is a completely irrelevant topic, because you have a system that concealed for three days the fact that a serious murder had taken place in a restaurant in central Belgrade. And then we hear about it all on social media, while the absurdity goes even further because we hear it from a foreign national,” Ivanović explained.
He added that the beginning of everything Serbian citizens have witnessed over the past few days dates back to the demolition in Savamala. “That was when the mafia took control of the state – or rather, when the state capitulated and the mafia took over the system,” the NPS MP believes.
A new normality without accountability
Asked whether it was normal for the Minister of the Interior to remain silent throughout the entire affair, the N1 interviewees responded categorically with a “no”. According to Stefan Janjić, this is not the first time that Ivica Dačić has failed to comment on such cases, and he has the impression that “he always tries to keep a low profile when a serious situation arises”.
The N1 interviewees agreed that the Minister of Police should have resigned immediately after it became public that Veselin Milić was implicated in an act that the prosecution has classified as aggravated murder. “He certainly should have resigned – and not only him, but also police director Dragan Vasiljević. In normal countries, the government itself would have fallen. Perhaps Dačić wanted to resign; we simply do not know. Or perhaps someone is preventing him from doing so,” Janjić said.
Janjić, however, stressed that the biggest problem in this case is that the public has received no answers whatsoever – despite the circumstances being such that answers ought to have been provided.
“To my knowledge, it has never happened before that such a high-ranking police official was directly involved in committing the gravest criminal offence, namely aggravated murder. This is the biggest scandal in the history of the police force in this country,” Janjić believes.
Asked whether it would be possible to achieve any sort of institutional resolution in this case, Janjić was not overly optimistic – at least not, as he put it, “under this government”. “Which case of this type in Serbia has ever been brought to a conclusion? None! Nothing here has been resolved, and that is simply proof that a change of government is necessary if anything is to change,” Janjić assessed.
Asked what, taking everything into account, the Serbian public can expect before the next elections, the N1 interviewees were once again in agreement – anything is possible. “No one can predict it. After all, who could have predicted this?” Janjić added.
“We are no longer in a grey zone, but in a black zone, so absolutely anything can be expected,” Ivanović concluded.
(N1, 20.05.2026)
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