Assasination on Cedomir Jovanovic in Belgrade

Attempted assassination on Cedomir Jovanovic, leader of the Serbian Liberal Democratic Party just two days before elections.

Belgrade police found an explosive device under the car of Serbian Liberal Democratic Party leader, Cedomir Jovanovic, after an anonymous tip, the B92 radio in Belgrade reported Friday. The explosive device had no detonator, as the police found out later, so it could not have exploded.

The police blocked the street in which the car was parked. Unofficial sources said that the device, had it had been detonated, could have blow everything up in a radius of 200 metres.

According to the preliminary information, Jovanovic had been having dinner in a restaurant when security guards from the restaurant noticed something suspicious under his car and called the police.

Jovanovic appeared on the political scene as a student leader who organised demonstrations against the late Serbian president and war crimes indictee, Slobodan Milosevic. He was one of the main associates of premier Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated in 2003.

In the meantime, Jovanovic became a well-known Serbian politician. He is one of the few who condemns the Chetnik rhetoric and the Greater Serbia idea. He is the only politician defending Kosovo’s secession who has a chance in the coming elections.