Police launches investigation into threats made to PM Vucic

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday that the Department of High Tech Crime had begun an investigation into death threats made against Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic via social networking websites by the so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.

Stefanovic told a press conference the Serbian police was working together with the police of a country the threats were suspected of coming from to identify the IT addresses of potential perpetrators.

The minister said he expected to receive information from the police of the country very soon, adding that the investigation would show whether the threats had been made by a single person or it was an organized network.

Black Hand said on its Facebook profile it was organizing a "public hunting" of Prime Minister Vucic, who, they said, had tried to get a revenge, via the Security Information Agency (BIA), on Radomir Pocuca, former TV Pink host, arrested as volunteer at a battlefield in Ukraine on March 17.

In the threatening notice, which contains insults at the expense of the prime minister, the Black Hand said that that all the people and resources available to the organization had been mobilized for the purpose of physically liquidating Vucic, the state-run Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) reported.

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