Another Criminal In Parliament

Rajko Milovic claims that every answer would mean prejudicing the solution which will be found through legal procedure. Ceko Dacevic has been in jail for several months now awaiting a trial. He is charged with a series of criminal offenses, including terrorism, and all this has to do with his activities in the well known events in the town of Pljevlja, when paramilitary formations under his command blocked Pljevlja and took over all the access roads and vital facilities, terrorizing the citizens, and when even certain socially-owned and private property was stolen. The court is to determine whether Dacevic was involved in the mining of some forty shops (owned by Muslims) in Pljevlja. Dacevic is the leader of the Serbian Radical Party in Pljevlja and since his arrest, this party, with the help of the Serbian National Renewal party for Montenegro and Herzegovina, has been exerting pressure on the authorities to release him. Rallies have been held in Pljevlja and Bijelo Polje, where the participants demanded his urgent release in order for him to appear in the election campaign since he was on the radicals' list for the federal parliament.

After a series of unsuccessful "liberation actions" and Ceko's hunger strike in jail, everything concerning him started to be forgotten until his case was once again made topical when he was elected member of the federal parliament. Dacevic's followers believe that MPs' immunity should be applied in his case, while, according to our knowledge, legislative bodies think differently. However, as things are going, no solution will come as a surprise. Ceko Dacevic is being "offered", "out of spite", the post of minister of police, say some Belgrade newspapers. And of federal minister to top it all off.