Opposition Party Warning of Increasingly Frequent Criminal Clashes in Belgrade

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Belgrade has recently become the site of an open criminal war - the end of which is not in sight - and the authorities are no longer able to guarantee safety, the Belgrade chapter of the Serbia Center opposition party said on May 22.

Regarding the recent murder at a restaurant, where a member of one criminal gang shot dead a member of another gang and which also involved the head of the Belgrade police, as well as numerous cases of arson at restaurants and cafes, Serbia Center said that life in the capital has become "Russian roulette."

"After the arrest of the head of the Belgrade Police Department, Veselin Milic, no one can hide the fact that the top of the police and criminal structures were connected by an umbilical cord. Instead of the promised stability, citizens of Belgrade are today living in an atmosphere that is more dangerous than the dark 1990s, because the authorities at the time at least pretended to have order, whereas the present-day ones have retreated before those with whom they share the loot. That is also backed by an attack on minors in Zvezdara (one of Belgrade's municipalities), because not even the police dare or are capable of reining in the unrestrained violent thugs, whom the Serbian Progressive Party regime is paying to intimidate citizens and political opponents," reads the party statement.