Hit-and-run driver "likely drove foreign plates car"

Hit-and-run driver "likely drove foreign plates car"

BELGRADE -- The driver who last month hit a 25-year-old man with his car and killed him, and then fled the scene, "most likely drove a foreign license plates vehicle."

This was announced on Monday by Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović.

Luka Jovanović died on Branko's Bridge in Belgrade on July 25. He was helping friends push a broken down Lada to the slow lane when a speeding Mini Cooper Countryman car hit him.

The victim's father has been standing at the scene of the accident every day, demanding that the authorities find the person responsible. On Sunday, he was joined by several hundred Belgraders who turned out to show their support.

Despite the fact that the bridge and the area around it are covered by security cameras, the footage the MUP released to the public yesterday "shows only the model of the car," the minister said on Monday. According to him, the cameras deployed there "are not set up to, and do not serve to record license plate numbers."

He added that he "would like the determining of the facts to go faster," and that currently, the police were analyzing the vehicle's fragments recovered after the accident, and looking for it "in cooperation with Interpol and our foreign partners."

According to Stefanović, "border crossings are being monitored, as well as the administrative line, footage from that night is being analyzed, and it can be said that the vehicle in question most likely had foreign license plates."

He explained that the police determined this based on the size of the plates.

According to the minister, the solving of the case is "the complete priority" for the police, and rejected...