Nemanja Vidić, the legendary Serbian footballer, has responded to the Sky ECC messages in which an alleged plot to attack him, reportedly planned by Slaviša Kokeza several years ago, was mentioned.
The article and revelations published by KRIK have attracted significant attention in Serbia, and Vidić posted his reaction on Instagram after learning that a physical attack against him had allegedly been planned and that even his family had been placed at risk.
“My initial reaction to the Sky messages story. This text is not about me. It is about a system that allows criticism to become a threat to someone’s life,” Vidić wrote in the caption of the video he posted.
Here is what Vidić said on camera. His remarks received widespread support from people across Serbia, as well as from several of his former teammates abroad, including Patrice Evra and Dimitar Berbatov.
“I can tell you what I think. When you appoint a street thug to run the Football Association and another street thug to run Red Star Football Club, you have brought the streets into football, and from that point on there can no longer be any constructive dialogue.
Every criticism is treated as a personal attack and as a threat to the spoils they have usurped. The people I am referring to, who lead or have led those institutions, are the consequence, not the cause of the problem. The greatest responsibility lies with the one who appointed them to those positions. He gave those two institutions from which they draw the power to solve their personal, or perhaps shared, problems by using the street thugs they cooperate with.
What disappoints and concerns me the most after reading these messages is that I learned from the media that my safety had been under threat, while no one from the state institutions informed me. No one from the police, the prosecution, or the judiciary.
I returned to Serbia with my family after 18 years, and after just 30 days I knew who was who and what they were doing, while the police apparently did not. This is a police state, and nothing can happen unless the institutions choose to look the other way. I would like someone from the state institutions to tell me whether my safety is still under threat,” Vidić said in the video.
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