Aleksandar Vulin( BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)
The Serbian interior minister, Aleksandar Vulin, said on Jan. 21 that his department was informed by the European Police Office (Europol) that a criminal group was planning Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s assassination, adding that police would do everything to protect the president.
“With an urgent report that a member of the European Union sent through Europol on Jan. 14, using official channels of communication between police departments, the Ministry of the Interior was officially made aware of operative information that an organized criminal group was plotting to assassinate Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic,” Vulin said to reporters at the Palace of Serbia.
The minister said that Serbian police and Europol representatives had launched an operation to identify members of the organization, and had discovered that the leader of the group was a Montenegrin national, Radoje Zvicer, whose arrest Serbia had issued a warrant for earlier. Vulin said that an investigation would show if Zvicer had independently formed the group to kill Vucic, or was ordered to do so by “his political boss.”
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that according to the report, the assassination was planned to take place in the first half of February.
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