The Serbian ultra scene has never been just about football. It has been a battlefield, where power is taken only by force, where rivals disappear and fear dominates. In Serbia, football terraces don’t produce only ultras, but they produce killers that can make Mexican cartels shake their head. Internal wars between supporter factions, disappearances, beatings, and murders have followed the terraces for decades. But no group has carried a darker shadow than factions emerging from Grobari, where conflicts stopped being about banners and chants and turned into organized crime. According to indictments and investigative reporting, this world produced torture chambers, kidnapped rivals, and murders carried out with a level of brutality that included dismemberment and beheadings.
What makes this story more disturbing is not only the violence, but the silence around it. For years, these men moved freely, controlling parts of the stands, the streets, and allegedly enjoying protection far beyond football. Court testimonies and media investigations have raised serious questions about connections between Grobari-linked criminal figures, senior police officials, and people close to the very top of the state. In Serbia, where politics, crime, and football have long shared the same space, the line between the stadium and the state has never been thinner.
Let’s get back to the beginning
Grobari were historically located in the south stand of the JNA stadium, during the late 00’s the leading group in the south was Alcatraz, back then Grobari were a top group, they had everything: numbers, passionate ultras creating top atmosphere, good lads in the streets, but it all changed when in 2009 Alcatraz members killed a Toulouse fan named Brice Taton. After this incident many Alcatraz members were jailed, one of their leaders got a 30-year sentence. Now with the power vacuum in the south of JNA, the remaining Alcatraz members needed more members to stay as the leading group in the south, so they surprisingly got some members of Delije (their archenemies), who in the past were imprisoned for stabbing Grobari members, and some guys from FK Rad (a smaller team in Belgrade).
The new faces of Alcatraz weren’t welcomed by all in the south, so this caused Grobari to split in 3 fractions: Grobari South, Zabranjeni and Partizanovci. Last 2 groups started calling Alcatraz with some other names, such as Janjicari (elite balkan soldiers who were forced to fight for Ottoman Empire) and they had many internal fights which ended up in killings, such as Aleksandar Stankovic – Sale Mutavi, Demir Jukic, Alen Kostić, Ljubomir Marković – Kica etc. After this a new group was created by the new guys of Alcatraz called Principi. One of the most remarkable internal fights was that of the derby number 156, when Young Boys (subgroup of Grobari then Zabranjeni) attacked Alcatraz and tried to take control but in the end failed. here’s some photos of that:
The worst of them all
Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković leaders of the Principi, the group was created in 2017, after the murder of Aleksandar Stanković, who before that led the united hooligan groups called Janjičari. Principi was founded by Veljko Belivuk with Marko Miljković, after being released from custody on charges of murdering Vlastimir Milošević.
When the Belivuk-Miljković clan was at its peak, in 2019, on the territory of Portugal, at sea, in an international police operation and in cooperation with the DEA, 800 kg of cocaine, worth around 50 million euros, was seized. A group composed of Serbs, Russians, Mexicans and Slovenians tried to transfer drugs from Latin America to the European market by sailboats. The cocaine was in packages of one kilogram each, and a good part of that drug had the image of Gavrilo Princip on it. This already indicated that Principi, as a branch of the Kovac clan, came under the scrutiny of international police forces and anti-drug units. However, in Serbia, Montenegro, as well as in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they were still considered untouchable. The crimes of Velja Nevolja and Maret Mesar were kept silent until October 2020, when the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, declared war on the mafia and an investigation was launched against the clan.
Here it gets even more interesting, Veljko and Marko weren’t alone in this, there were many high-profile people supporting them, starting from Police and Gendarmerie officers to the heads of Police, Interior Minister, Police Minister, secretary of state and even the President of Serbia himself, Aleksandar Vučić. Velje and Marko weren’t really interested that much in the south, but they were used by the President, Aleksandar Vučić to take control of the south in order control the chants (People in Serbia started to massively dislike the President).
In leaked interrogations, Veljko ‘Velja Nevolja’ Belivuk claimed to investigators that his network had direct ties to Serbia’s political elite, including President Aleksandar Vučić and top ruling party officials, offering services ranging from managing fan chants to intimidating regime critics and protest organizers. Belivuk even claimed he met the president several times through intermediaries linked to Vučić’s inner circle. While Serbian officials have vehemently denied these claims and accused him of lying to escape punishment, the very existence of such allegations has shaken the political landscape and fueled debate about the blurry line between mafia muscle and political power in Serbia.
Principi used Partizan’s stadium for their drug and weapon trafficking operations and any decent Police officer who tried to investigate was quickly removed or demoted to another position, the same would happen to journalists who tried to investigate these things, they were accused as enemies of the state.
Veljko, Marko and their group are accused of killing multiple people by luring them and then sending them to a house in Ritopek (20km from Belgrade), killing by mutilating them and posing with their body parts, sending photos to their friends and then dumping them in Danube River. In Ritopek there was a room for torture and killing, and an industrial meat grinder was found in it, where the bodies of the victims were destroyed. The walls of the secret room were spattered with the blood of the murdered. That discovery was the hardest blow for the clan, then the evidence was collected which, together with the Sky application and witnesses, built the indictments against them.
These killings were mostly made by the order of Kovac clan against their enemies Skaljari Clan and by the orders of high-profile politicians who wanted to deal with their enemies this way. It is absolutely absurd that these scenes happen in Europe and the state is involved in these. Here are some photos of their disgusting activities.
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