Blic: Attacks on foreigners orchestrated

Daily Blic writes that the recent attacks on foreigners are not coincidental, because such attacks rarely occur in Belgrade under normal circumstances. While the Frenchmen brutally attacked by football hooligans, Brice Taton, is fighting for his life, and the country is trying to rise above the violence, the new attacks show that someone is very interested in people, especially foreigners, not feeling safe in Belgrade, the daily writes. Blic: Attacks on foreigners orchestrated “This chain of events surely is not accidental, but part of an organized political or para-political action. There are certain interest groups standing behind this who have political motives for showing that this country is weaker than these hooligan actions. These are the same people misusing the children from the Obraz and 1389 organizations,” political analyst Professor Zoran Dragisic said. As in the case of the brutally beaten Frenchmen and the Australian that was assaulted in front of a public bathroom, the arrests that followed show that these are not phantom groups, but hooligans who are already well known to police. Whether the same thing will be confirmed in the case of the assaulted Libyan citizens will be shown in the further investigations, since police had no new information on the attack on Saturday. Dragisic said that he believes that these attacks where all organized. “I think that we are faced with a campaign of violence which is well organized and now it is time for the BIA and the police to unravel these groups. What is happening should be taken very seriously because it is endangering the constitutional order and strategic orientation of the country,” he said. Miljenko Dereta, president of the Civil Initiative non-governmental organization, said that these events have opened the flood gates for violence that aims to obstruct the European future of Serbia. “Behind this stands the fact that someone does not want Serbian citizens to be able to move freely around Europe and European to move freely through Serbia. Getting closer to the Schengen white list does not bode well for some political circles in Serbia, and they also do not like the fast actions of the courts after the attack on the French citizens, and the fact that EU association is followed by a strict organization of the country and serious control,” he said. “Those who inspired these attacks cannot last in such a society. All this together justifies the suspicion that these attacks are coordinated and that young people are being encouraged to do this. In this climate, of course, there are also self-initiated actions of some bored young people, who have obviously received the message that it is alright to assault foreigners,” Dereta said. Liberal Democratic Party official Vesna Pesic also believes that the attacks are being organized. She said that it is possible that anti-European groups in Serbia want to show that the police and state cannot implement a legal monopoly on force and control public order and peace, “because these groups are still too strong in Serbia.” “The centers of violence in Serbia are never searched, neither are the circles that stand behind them. Everyone knows that the mafia has ties with politics, but no one wants to look for the sources of violence that we all know exist. There are militant organizations standing behind the violence of hooligans and nationalist groups,” she said. “The militant parts of the Serbian Orthodox Church must be investigated to see what ultra-nationalist groups they are tied to, and the ties between some parties with extreme ideological orientations must also be look at. These things will continue to occur until these sources of violence and ideological hate is put under control,” Pesic concluded.

Blic: Attacks on foreigners orchestrated

“This chain of events surely is not accidental, but part of an organized political or para-political action. There are certain interest groups standing behind this who have political motives for showing that this country is weaker than these hooligan actions. These are the same people misusing the children from the Obraz and 1389 organizations,” political analyst Professor Zoran Dragišić said.

As in the case of the brutally beaten Frenchmen and the Australian that was assaulted in front of a public bathroom, the arrests that followed show that these are not phantom groups, but hooligans who are already well known to police.

Whether the same thing will be confirmed in the case of the assaulted Libyan citizens will be shown in the further investigations, since police had no new information on the attack on Saturday.

Dragišić said that he believes that these attacks where all organized.

“I think that we are faced with a campaign of violence which is well organized and now it is time for the BIA and the police to unravel these groups. What is happening should be taken very seriously because it is endangering the constitutional order and strategic orientation of the country,” he said.

Miljenko Dereta, president of the Civil Initiative non-governmental organization, said that these events have opened the flood gates for violence that aims to obstruct the European future of Serbia.

“Behind this stands the fact that someone does not want Serbian citizens to be able to move freely around Europe and European to move freely through Serbia. Getting closer to the Schengen white list does not bode well for some political circles in Serbia, and they also do not like the fast actions of the courts after the attack on the French citizens, and the fact that EU association is followed by a strict organization of the country and serious control,” he said.

“Those who inspired these attacks cannot last in such a society. All this together justifies the suspicion that these attacks are coordinated and that young people are being encouraged to do this. In this climate, of course, there are also self-initiated actions of some bored young people, who have obviously received the message that it is alright to assault foreigners,” Dereta said.

Liberal Democratic Party official Vesna Pešić also believes that the attacks are being organized.

She said that it is possible that anti-European groups in Serbia want to show that the police and state cannot implement a legal monopoly on force and control public order and peace, “because these groups are still too strong in Serbia.”

“The centers of violence in Serbia are never searched, neither are the circles that stand behind them. Everyone knows that the mafia has ties with politics, but no one wants to look for the sources of violence that we all know exist. There are militant organizations standing behind the violence of hooligans and nationalist groups,” she said.

“The militant parts of the Serbian Orthodox Church must be investigated to see what ultra-nationalist groups they are tied to, and the ties between some parties with extreme ideological orientations must also be look at. These things will continue to occur until these sources of violence and ideological hate is put under control,” Pešić concluded.