The Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) labels the Serbian President the “leader of an organized criminal group” for attempting to fly nearly 100 known thugs on a state-backed charter flight into Montenegro.
Marinika Tepić, the Vice President of Serbia’s opposition Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), launched an aggressive, unsparing assault against President Aleksandar Vučić on Thursday evening, June 4, 2026. Speaking at a political town hall in Ruma, Tepić accused Vučić of systematically humiliating the nation and deliberately trying to project “the worst possible image of Serbia” on the eve of the high-stakes EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tivat.
Her remarks arrive amid international uproar over Montenegrin border authorities intercepting and deporting 87 Serbian operatives arriving on a chartered Air Serbia flight. Tepić pulled no punches, openly characterizing the Serbian head of state as an erratic autocrat whose domestic and international networks are fracturing.
“Instead of dealing with the fact that Montenegro is closer to the EU today than Serbia is after 14 years of his rule, Vučić is trying to distract the public with a new incident, a demonstration of force, and the destabilization of regional relations,” Tepić declared. “It is scandalous that he tried to transport nearly a hundred of his loyalists and thugs with serious criminal records into Montenegro… The bill for such political and security adventures is, once again, being paid by the citizens of Serbia.”
Infiltrators Instead of Diplomats: The Opposition’s Breakdown
Tepić emphasized that while European heavyweights like French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrive in Tivat flanked by high-level diplomats, economic experts, and potential institutional investors, Belgrade’s delegation was exposed trying to smuggle a proxy street force across the border.
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│ The Tivat Contrast: What the Region Witnessed │
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│ EUROPEAN DELEGATIONS │ VUČIĆ’S DELEGATION │
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│ • Senior Foreign Policy Advisers │ • 87 Detained Infiltrators │
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│ • Economic and Investment Experts │ • Known Criminal Rap Sheets │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ • Structural Growth Plan Strategists │ • Shadow Political Enforcers │
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The SSP Vice President argued that the entire operation highlights a regime suffering from deep existential panic. “No sane person would do this, unless his business dealings with the mafia have completely collapsed,” Tepić added, noting that the region did not see the face of a modern, European Serbia, but rather “the image of a system falling apart before the eyes of everyone.”
Footing the Bill: The Promise of Fiscal Retribution
Beyond the severe geopolitical blowback, Tepić brought the focus back to domestic accountability and state corruption. She promised the crowd in Ruma that the financial resources used to fund the controversial, last-minute Air Serbia charter flight would not be forgotten by the opposition.
She declared that once a democratic transition is achieved in Belgrade, every dinar siphoned into covert regional operations will be systematically audited. The funds used for the Tivat operation, Tepić concluded, will be legally clawed back into the “National Fund for the Return of Stolen Money”—a core institutional mechanism the SSP plans to establish to hold the ruling elite financially accountable for their legacy of state capture.
