Serbia's PM sincerely concerns about President's safety

Speaking to the pro-regime Pink TV about the recent arrest of a criminal organisation led by Veljko Belivuk, Brnabic said it was "the tip of the iceberg."

She compared the group to the notorious Zemun Clan wiped out after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.

"When President Aleksandar Vucic declared the fight against mafia which believed it was more powerful than the state, that (the arrest) is what he thought about. Many laughed then, are nervous now and use some organisations, media and forums to get out of that. But I believe they won't succeed and that we will clean the society and the political scene," Brnabic said.

"No country has such President (as Vucic)," she added, saying Serbia would not have either the Russian or the Chinese vaccines if it were not for Vucic, "thanks to whom the coronavirus suffered the key blow."

"But then you have the members of the former regime who know Vucic is between them being in opposition or in power again, Brnabic said, adding that was the reason behind the campaign against the President and his brother Andrej and son Danilo.

"I would have rather died then say what (an opposition leader Dragan) Djilas said about vaccines, and then queue to receive it. I would have rather died or apologise or did what (former opposition presidential candidate) Sasa Jankovic had done when he said he was wrong and apologised for saying 'Vucic's lying again that we'll get vaccines," Brnabic said.

She added that "that's why they (the opposition) were not so happy about this blow to the organised crime and continued to link Vucic and his family to the most vicious criminals, those they had smiling photos with, those whose best friend is a drug pusher."

Brnabic said she thought of Marinika Tepic, a deputy leader of Djilas' Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) and the most outspoken critic of the authorities who often disclosed what she said were relevant and original proves about crimes linked to Vucic's ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) officials.