The massacre at "Panda" was carried out by the current leaders of the Zemun and Škaljar clans.

“We are soldiers.” This was the only sentence that Luka Bojovic, the leader of the new Zemun clan, uttered in Serbian to his friends and colleagues who were arrested with him after lunch at a restaurant on February 9, 2012, when he was arrested in Valencia. At the table with Bojovic were Vladimir Milisavljević “Budala”, Vladimir Mijanović “Zuba” and Sinisa Petrić “Zenica”, his closest associates from the clan, but also from the battlefields of the former Yugoslavia. A brief warning to the friends that they were soldiers was followed by their refusal to hand over the requested documents to the Spanish police. All three obeyed without a word.

This arrested foursome is the most graphic illustration of the connections between war crimes and today's criminal clans, security services, and even the top of the Serbian state.

Apart from Bojović, about whom practically everything is known since the arrest of "Zemunci", less written and known is about Sinisa Petrić "Zenica", one of Bojović's closest associates and friends from the time he went to Erdut at the age of only 18 in 1991 to join the paramilitary unit of the Serbian Volunteer Guard of Željko Ražnatović Arkan.

Since “Zenica” had joined Arkan at that time, on the bloody battlefield of the Croatian war, the long-standing friendship and cooperation between Bojović and Petrić began. In 1993 and 1994, Petrić became a member of Marinko Magda’s notorious gang, which committed a series of monstrous crimes and massacred entire families in Subotica, Crvenka and Szeged for the sake of profit. The investigation revealed that the weapons used for these crimes were weapons brought from the battlefield by members of Magda’s group. Petrić was sentenced to 15 years in prison and placed in the “Dubrava” prison near Istok in Kosovo, from where he disappeared in 1999 during the NATO bombing, with the help of the Special Operations Unit led by Milorad Ulemek Legija. In 2003, Petrić would be arrested again, with an international arrest warrant, back in prison and – again – escape. His name is associated with several professional liquidations in those years, carried out at the expense of the Zemun clan, until he was arrested in Valencia in 2012, along with his old associate Bojović, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Bojović told the truth during his arrest in Valencia – he and “Zenica” are soldiers. First of Arkan, then of Legija, then of the Zemun clan, and all this time they were loyal soldiers of the Serbian State Security Service, today’s Security-Information Agency (BIA).

This is best evidenced by the strong intelligence-diplomatic activity that, according to well-informed sources, has been carried out by Serbian diplomatic services in recent years to find a legal solution for the release of Bojović and Petrić, who will be transferred to a "neighboring" prison where the BIA can control them.

When Luka Bojović arrived in Serbia at the end of 2022, after serving 10 of the 18 years of his sentence in Spain, the news that Siniša Petrić “Zenica” had been allowed to serve the last three years and 10 months of his sentence in Trebinje prison went completely unnoticed. As is happening with Petrić when he is in the hands of the BIA, this unscrupulous killer is expected to “evaporate” from Trebinje prison, which would be the third time he has done so. He was supposed to be transferred to Trebinje at the end of 2022, but there is no official information that this actually happened.

MASSACRE AT THE “PANDA” CAFE IN PEJE

But if there were political will in Serbia, the case of the massacre at the "Panda" cafe in Peja, where six young people were killed on December 14, 1998, could now be fully solved and clarified. Ivan Obradovic (14), Vukota Gvozdenovic (16), Svetislav Ristic (17), Zoran Stanojevic (17), Dragan Trifkovic (17) and Ivan Radevic (25) were killed that night, and their families still have no answers after 24 years, nor a shred of hope from Serbian state institutions that the investigation could soon be completed and charges filed for the murder of their children and brothers.

According to reliable information provided to the M portal by regional intelligence services, this crime was committed for the State Security Service by Luka Bojović, Sinisa Petrić “Zenica” and Radomir Boban Bačović, today the head of the Skaljar clan and one of Bojović’s closest associates. The order was given by Radomir Rade Marković, then head of the State Security Service, Milorad Ulemek Legija, commander of the Special Operations Unit (JSO), was the organizer, and Bojović, “Zenica” and Bačović were the direct executors.

Very few people have information about their involvement in the massacre, it is classified at the highest level, and today's BIA, the successor to the State Security, uses it for its own interests and those of the Serbian political elite.

The Peja Cafe Massacre occurred on December 14, 1998, at the height of the conflict in Kosovo, when Slobodan Milošević had decided to resolve the “Kosovo issue” with armed force. Albanians were immediately suspected of the murder of the six young men, and the media declared the Kosovo Liberation Army to be the main culprit. Three days after the murder, the police arrested Agron Kolçak, Gazmend Bajrami, Xhevdet Bajrami, Beqir Loxha, and Vllaznim Pergjegjaj, suspects of the crime in the Kapishnica neighborhood of Peja. The public was led to believe that KLA members were responsible for the murder and that it was revenge for the murder of 34 members of their organization a few days earlier, thus achieving the objective of the Milošević government – ​​tensions between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo were at their peak and the path to bloody revenge was open. The five Albanian suspects were released on December 15, 1999, with the intervention of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

BEHIND THE SCENES

However, what was hidden from the public and the media’s spies at the time was that at the time of the Panda Cafe crime, Peja was under the control of Ulemek’s special operations unit, which patrolled the city every day, causing concern for both the Serb and Albanian populations. Since 1997, the JSO headquarters had been located in a resort near the Deçan monastery, so it is hard to believe that the KLA, and especially a less organized group, would dare to carry out such a massacre in the presence of Ulemek’s notorious “Red Berets,” composed of well-trained special forces, but to a large extent also hardened, unscrupulous criminals, recruited through the State Security Service from prisons and the streets. Their ranks include members of Arkan's "Tigers", a paramilitary unit that Luka Bojović joined in 1991 at the age of 18.

Regarding Luka Bojović’s stay with Legija in Kosovo during the war and NATO intervention, there is television testimony from his father Vuk Bojović and Arkan’s close friend and bodyguard Rada Rakonjac. Vuk Bojović claimed that his son Luka joined Arkan’s “Tigers” voluntarily, “deceived by Greater Serbia propaganda,” and that all further duties, including his stay in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, were carried out on the orders of the State Security Service.

That December 1998, just 26 kilometers from Peja and 50 from the “Red Berets” base in Legija, Bojović’s old friend from the “Tigers” and brutal multiple murderer Sinisa Petrić “Zenica” was serving a 15-year sentence in “Dubrava” prison near Istog. In the dark late 1990s, the Serbian State Security Service also recruited Radomir Boban Bačović, then a member of the Nikšić criminal gang “Kvartasi”. His file officially records only one arrest in Serbia in 2013, but well-informed sources claim that this was the work of the SDB, which, after arresting him for a minor offense, released him from prison while he, in turn, did dirty work for the service.

After receiving orders from the then SDB chief Radomir Marković to carry out a massacre in Kosovo, which would be attributed to Albanians and the KLA, in order to create the environment for an absolute military action, Milorad Ulemek Legija selected three people for this task – Luka Bojović, Sinisa Petrić and Radomir Baqović.

The trio that will carry out the massacre in "Panda" will become one of the most notorious criminal clans in Europe. /Mportal/