BELGRADE, Feb 23 (Hina) - A Belgrade District Court investigating judge on Sunday ruled month-long detention for Dejan Milenkovic a.k.a. Bagzi of the so-called "Surcin clan", who last Friday tried to run with his truck into a convoy
with a car carrying Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic, which was moving along a highway towards the Belgrade airport, the Belgrade electronic media reported.
BELGRADE, Feb 23 (Hina) - A Belgrade District Court investigating
judge on Sunday ruled month-long detention for Dejan Milenkovic
a.k.a. Bagzi of the so-called "Surcin clan", who last Friday tried
to run with his truck into a convoy with a car carrying Serbian
Premier Zoran Djindjic, which was moving along a highway towards
the Belgrade airport, the Belgrade electronic media reported. #L#
Operative information of the Serbian police shows that what
happened was indeed an attempt on Djinjdic's life, Serbian Radio-
Television reported. It quoted police sources as saying that
Milenkovic had been waiting in a truck on the hard shoulder and when
informed via mobile phone that the car with the Serbian premier was
approaching, he crossed, driving at high speed, into the lane along
which Djinjdic's car was moving. The premier's driver barely
managed to avoid the collision.
The Politika daily reports that Milenkovic denied having attempted
to kill Djindjic and that a special headquarters has been set up to
investigate the case.
Radio B92 quoted Djindjic as saying to reporters in Frankfurt he
could not "believe that someone would try to do the same thing after
the Ibar highway case (an attempt on the lives of politician Vuk
Draskovic and his associates in a 1999 car accident).
"If it is true that this was an attempt on my life and that those
people think that nothing has changed in the country and they can do
what they did during Milosevic's rule, they are gravely mistaken,"
he said.
(hina) rml