Police claim that the attempt to break into the apartment of journalist Milan Jovanović is unrelated to the firebombing of his house

Jovanović, who wrote about abuses of power in the local government for local portal zig.info, saw his house in the Belgrade suburb of Vrčin destroyed in a devastated fire that was deliberately set at around 3am on the morning of 12^th December. Jovanović subsequently relocated to a rented apartment in Belgrade, which was targetted by a burglar just three days after he moved in. Following the attempted break-in, he received police protection for a period of 24 hours

The police announced that the suspected perpetrator of the break-in was arrested along with another person in connection with the theft of copper guttering from a building, and is suspected of involvement in several other burglaries around Belgrade. He was arrested on the basis of criminal charges filed with the competent prosecutor’s office, after which he was remanded into custody.

Jovanović told portal Cenzolovka that he was aware that the persons who had attempted to break into his apartment  had been found, but that he felt as though the entire investigation in his case is “progressing slowly”.

Even before it was announced that the attempted break-in had nothing to do with the journalist whose house was set ablaze, Serbian President Vučić said in an interview for portal Espreso that the first results of the investigation show that the attempt to break into the apartment where journalist Jovanović was resident was an attempt to burglar the apartment, which hadn’t previously been occupied for a long time.