Previously unknown details from the trial over the "Ribnikar" mass shooting have emerged — They are disturbing

The hostile exchanges reportedly began as early as 2020, when the boy who later committed the shooting coldly wrote to his mother: “I hate you.”

Miljana allegedly replied: “I’m at school, don’t be ashamed of me, I’m your mother, you should be proud of me,” only to send him another message a few days later saying: “F*ck you, son.”

Evidence suggesting that the boy had displayed potentially violent behavior earlier was reflected in another message from his mother: “What are you doing? Why do you feel the need to behave like that toward your sister?”

According to Blic, the extent of the lack of parental supervision was further highlighted by the boy’s actions on the night before the massacre.

Lawyers stated that the boy spent that night viewing explicit online content involving both humans and animals while his younger sister was in the same room.

They argued that the parents exercised virtually no control over what their son was doing and showed little interest in supervising him.

“She brought cookies, he brought bullets”

The closing statements of the victims’ families were also read in court, prompting deep emotion in the courtroom.

Dragana Andjelković, the mother of the slain Mara, tearfully recalled the most difficult moment of her life—seeing her daughter in the morgue and trying to warm her cold hands with a scarf.

“She did not deserve this. She had six gunshot wounds, one of them through the heart. She never had a chance,” the mother said, adding that the shooter “did not even flinch” during the attack and that his only goal appeared to be his own survival.

Nina Kobiljski, the mother of the murdered Ema, described a heartbreaking detail about the last gift they had bought for their daughter.

“At the funeral, we covered the bullet wound on her head with a hairband and the wound on her chest with her favorite dress,” she said, adding that the upcoming verdict “is not a struggle to bring back the past, but to save the future.”

A lawyer representing the Martinović family read a letter from the older sister of the murdered Katarina addressed to the defendants:

“She brought cookies, he brought bullets. You took my sister away from me. Don’t deceive yourselves—you are guilty.”

Suzana Čikić Stanković, the mother of the murdered Andrija, said that the shooter’s parents do not understand the difference between caring for a child and merely educating one. She also described an incident during the trial in which Miljana Kecmanović allegedly shouted at her in the courtroom: “Shame on you.”

Ninela Radičević, the mother of Ana Božović, stated that she feels her daughter was not killed by the boy alone, but by Vladimir Kecmanović and Miljana Kecmanović through the way they raised him.

Radica Vlahović, sister of the murdered school security guard Dragan Vlahović, remembered her brother as a man who was always smiling and loved children. She said that her greatest source of strength comes from the mothers of the victims, who have remained dignified throughout the proceedings and have not uttered a single insulting word toward the defendants.

“It is a disgrace that the head of the family does not blame himself”

Lawyers representing the victims’ families were equally direct in their arguments.

Goran Petronijević emphasized that a child is not born a criminal and argued that things might have turned out differently if the boy’s father had taken him to church services instead of a shooting range.

Attorney Marko Janković harshly criticized what he described as the father’s complete lack of responsibility:

“It is a disgrace that the head of the family does not blame himself.”

He further noted that even if Vladimir Kecmanović receives the maximum sentence requested by the prosecution, it would amount to only about one year and two months of imprisonment for each innocent victim.