Dacic: Apparently no wider organisation behind Wahhabist terrorist act

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday apparently no wider organisation had been involved in preparations for a recent Wahhabist terrorist attack in which a Serbian gendarme was severely injured outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade.

Speaking to reporters at a ceremony at which President Aleksandar Vucic decorated gendarme Milos Jevremovic with the Order of Merit for Defence and Security, Ist Class, Dacic said individual actions by Wahhabists were difficult to prevent.

"That is why it is important to have a degree of surveillance over members of the Wahhabist movement. The Security and Information Agency, whose primary competence is that, will be dealing with that alongside the Interior Ministry and other security services," Dacic said.

He said the man who had wounded Jevremovic with a crossbow arrow before being shot dead by the gendarme had been a member of a widely dispersed Wahhabist organisation.

"They communicate via social media networks extensively," Dacic said.

He said a Wahhabist leader who was on the run in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija had said Allah would exact his revenge on Serbian police and those who had been involved in arrests following the terrorist attack.

"So, without a doubt, they represent a threat, mostly to Bosniaks and to Muslims who disagree with their beliefs, and we will continue to monitor them, Dacic said.