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Bomb attack on the apartment of Dejan Anastasijević on 14 April 2007 is one of the most serious attacks on journalists in the past ten years and it remains unsolved to this day.
Source: Insajder.net
Asked by Insajder.net how far the investigation has progressed in nine years, the Superior Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that “the case related to this event is undergoing expertise”.
A bomb was thrown to the window of the apartment of Dejan Anastasijević during the night between 13 and 14 April 2007. Luckily no one was hurt although a part of the explosive device ended up several centimeters above the bed of Anastasijević and his wife who were already asleep. Their daughter was returning home from a birthday party at the time.
Immediately following the attack, the Police director Milorad Veljović came to the crime scene investigation; prime minister Vojislav Koštunica issued a strong statement; director of the Security Information Agency, Rade Bulatović, called Dejan Anastasijević; and minister of interior, Dragan Jočić, called the newsroom of the weekly “Vreme” [that Anastasijević worked for].
President of Serbia, Boris Tadić, came to the “Vreme” newsroom and stated that the event was “an attack on the state”, announcing that he would “require investigation and action at the highest level”. The investigation has not been completed to this day.
Prior to the attack Anastasijević received several threat calls, and unknown persons called the “Vreme” newsroom asking about him. It was considered that the motives of the bomb attack on the journalist were linked to his public statements about the [war crime] case “Scorpions” or with the fact that he had been a witness at the Hague Tribunal. The real reason has never been established.
Dejan Anastasijević is journalist of the weekly “Vreme” and former correspondent of the news agency Tanjug from Brussels. He was a war reporter during wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He testified before the Hague Tribunal during the trial of Slobodan Milošević. In the years preceding the attack he was actively writing about crime and war crimes.
Translation: SEENPM
