Belgrade Connection

Their attorneys claim that they denied their participation in the attack during the court investigation. However, the validity of the evidence which could contest the claims of the accused gathered by the police is for now also unknown, since a court investigation has been launched against them. The case of Dusan Spasojevic is a lot more interesting who, along with Vladimir Jovanovic, both from Belgrade, are suspected by the police of having taken part in the assassination attempt. They are on the run and the Montenegrin police has issued a warrant for them while the court in Podgorica has lodged a request for their arrest. What then ensued is something which has never before occurred in police records: Spasojevic, according to lieutenant colonel Miodrag Gutic of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, turned himself in to the Belgrade police claiming that he had nothing to do with the attempt.

Still, he was kept in detention 24 hours and was then released since he "promised" to turn up in the Podgorica court. Gutic then announced his Montenegrin colleagues were informed that Spasojevic had turned himself in and that he was subsequently released since, allegedly, Belgrade police hadn't received the request of the Montenegrin investigative bodies for Spasojevic's arrest, which is why the suspect was not escorted to Montenegro. However, the information coming from Montenegro is that the court investigative bodies had lodged the request for Spasojevic's arrest in due course. Something is obviously fishy here. Especially since Gutic says that "Spasojevic had, at the time of his arrival in the Belgrade police precinct, filed medicine documents as well concerning his poor health, whose authenticity was not checked by the police".

Why not? Especially since it was suspected that one of the more serious criminal acts has been committed in Budva. Anyway a hospital in Belgrade's central prison exists which could verify Spasojevic's eventual capability of traveling to Montenegro. However, Spasojevic, allegedly, still wanted to travel to Montenegro, accompanied by his lawyers, in order to prove his innocence.

However, on the very night prior to his departure for Montenegro, he fell ill and failed to arrive at the airport where his lawyers awaited him in vain. He was then transferred to the clinic in which he had previously been treated. His attorney Slobodan Milivojevic didn't want to specify which clinic that was, due to "security reasons". It would have been more convincing had he said what clinic had treated him and had security been posted there which would have been, had the patient truly been threatened, a lot safer. "Spasojevic is prepared to turn himself in to the judicial bodies of Montenegro..." claims Milivojevic. We'll see.