Gërgi: Radoić’s surrender would also bring down Vučić, which is why Serbia is not acting
Express newspaper
17/04/2026 7:02
GLPS researcher Besar Gërgi has assessed that one of the main reasons why Serbia is not taking action against Milan Radoić is related to the political risk that such a step would pose for Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić himself.
According to him, if Radoićić were to surrender to justice for the terrorist attack in Banjska, Zvečan, he would “take Vučić down with him”.
On KTV’s “Interaktiv”, Gërgi said that Serbia is a mafia state and that anyone who would take power would have to cooperate with criminal groups.
“Serbia is a kind of mafia state and whoever will take and hold power in Serbia must cooperate with criminal groups. Milan Radoić did not just appear on the scene in 2023 with the Banjska attack, he was one of the first partners of the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić, so his name is included in the first financing of Vučić’s party, as well as in some of the most controversial projects, he is a person who has extremely compromising material on Vučić and Vučić’s idea must be that if he hands over Radoić, he will take Vučić down with him,” he said.
Therefore, according to him, it is unlikely that Radoicic will be arrested in the coming months or years, let alone extradited.
“But this does not mean that the Government should not demand this because we alone must fight for our rights,” he continued.
Today, during the day, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Glauk Konjufca, during the reception he gave to his Belgian counterpart, Maxime Prevot, mentioned the terrorist attack in Banjska, Zvečan, and the one on the Ibër Lepenc canal, and said that only the punishment of the perpetrators of these attacks can restore a minimal atmosphere of trust for dialogue with Serbia.
“I’m not asking for something completely extraordinary, but I’m saying the minimum. The minimum of good faith is that the perpetrators of this terrorist act in Banjska, who killed Afrim Bunjaku, should end up in prison. They should be behind bars. These cannot be key people in Serbia and Vučić’s right-hand man as they are today, and as we see them operating in Serbia today. This is elementary, this is basic,” Konjufca said.
He accused the former mediator of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, of dishonestly setting the formation of the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities as a precondition for the country’s membership in the Council of Europe.
Regarding this statement, Gërgi said that Konjufca and the Government are trying to present the Association as a kind of responsibility that Lajçak has assigned.