Ivan Bogdanov led action in which USA Embassy was set on fire

The leader of hooligans in Genoa is Ivan Bogdanov (30). In Serbia numerous criminal chargers were raised against him for attacks on policemen, causing of injuries, selling of drugs and similar.

He is also suspected to have been among those who led the action in which the USA Embassy was set on fire, ‘Blic’ learns.

According to findings by the investigation bodies, Bogdanov is one of the leaders of the extremist football fans’ group of the Red Star FC called ‘Ultras Boys’. He is also a member of the extremist ‘Movement 1389’.

In criminal charges it is written that Bogdanov is not employed and that he works from time to time as a member of security but it is not said at which company.
Kosovo ‘defender’.

He was arrested many times and the police have filed against him five criminal charges until so far. He took part in violent protests in Belgrade on several occasions – after proclamation of independence of Kosovo in 2004 and protest against arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008. He also forced the Red Star FC football players to wear shirts with the inscription ‘Justice for Uros’, a young hooligan who seriously injured a policeman during football match and was initially sentence to ten years in prison.

October 5

The ‘Ultras Boys’ are actually led by Marko Vuckovic Mare who took part in breaking of a police cordon in front of the federal Parliament and demolishing of the building of the national television on October 5, 2000. At that time he denied to have had participated in looting and destruction. He claimed to have only ‘disarmed policemen and gave them wearing ‘Otpor’ T-shirts in order to protect them from lynching by citizens.

At the moment in Serbia there are between two and three thousands of violent fans always on stand by with full equipment (masks, baseball sticks, knives, guns) waiting command from their leader.

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