Two-year-old Danka Ilić she disappeared almost a month agowhen the whole of Serbia rose to its feet because it was the first time “Find me system activated”, the domestic version of Amber Alert, an alert system that is activated when a child goes missing. Unfortunately, days later, it was discovered that the girl had been murdered. While the two suspects have been in custody for 20 days, the body is still being searched for.
For almost a month, all available resources have been on the ground to find the girl’s body and end the parents’ agony.
March 26 – A girl disappeared in Banjsko polje
In the evening of March 26, news arrived that a two-year-old girl had disappeared in Banjsko polje. As the mother explained to Telegraf.rs, she went to give water to another child, and when she turned around, her daughter was gone.
Already on the first evening, more than 100 people were looking for Danko on the field. The inhabitants of Banjsko polje, neighbors, friends, fire brigade, as well as members of the Mountain Rescue Service and the police were looking for her.
The mayor of Bor calmly told the residents to retreat that day, so that the police could search for the child, and added that there were sniffer dogs on the road, and that drones had been flying over the area all day. The police continued to search for Danko throughout the night, and the locals were asked to stand back so as not to disturb the search dogs. The terrain was inspected with thermal imaging cameras.
The rain that started that evening made the search even more difficult in the dark, but the search continued during the night. Helicopters were also sent to the field, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Bratislav Gašić, went to Banjsko polje.
Video: Firefighters are looking for a missing child in Bor, all teams are on the field
Find me system activated
On the same day, in the evening, when all the information was collected and when it was considered safe for the child, the “find me” system sounded. Citizens received a text message with summarized information about the missing girl, with a link to more detailed information and her photo.
All the panels on the highways showed information about Danka, on every free counter at the airport there was her picture, a similar situation was at the bus and train stations, the media reported on the disappearance, and the televisions interrupted the program for half an hour to highlight the details about a missing child.
On the same day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia announced detailed information about the girl’s disappearance.
The search for Danko Ilić continued on March 27. On that day, the locals said that there were several holes around Ilić’s house that were between one and two meters deep and that they had filled with underground water. Everyone was worried that the little girl had wandered off and fallen in with one of them. The police used sticks to check if there was anything in the holesbut without results.
In the early hours of the morning, the gendarmerie units that searched the area joined the search, and the search was still hampered by heavy rain.
Video: Little Danke (2) has been missing for 16 hours, missing in the vicinity of Bor: The search continues since the early hours of the morning
While the search on the ground was going on, checkpoints were set up on the approach to Banjsko polje the police inspected the vehicles. Too all abandoned buildings were inspected in that settlement, and the questioning of “all persons of security interest” who previously had problems with the law began.
The approach to the house in front of which the girl disappeared was blocked by the police, and with the gendarmerie they are searching the inaccessible terrain in and around the settlement the hunters, who know the terrain well, also set off. A little later, miners from Bor joined the search. A certain number of citizen volunteers, as well as members of the Mountain Rescue Service, participated in the search.
For every hole, pit, pond or well sonars were usedso that it could be seen that the girl did not fall in. Brestovacki potok was also examined, but there were no search results. Apart from the rain, which started the previous day, the search was made difficult by the thick fog that descended on the settlement in the afternoon. However, the search for Danko was not abandoned.
During the day, the search was further expanded. Forensic experts and members of the Belgrade Criminal Police joined in.
Video: The police are combing every inch of the neighborhood where little Danka (2) disappeared
Members of the Ministry of the Interior, after 27 hours of detailed search of the ground in search of two-year-old Danka Ilić in the suburban settlement of Banjsko Polje and Brestovačka banja, suspended further search, given that all the results so far indicated that the girl is not in that area area of about 10 square kilometers.
It was announced that the search will continue through operations. However, the police set up tents at the place of the girl’s disappearance, which indicated that the search in the field is nowhere near over.
That day Danka Ilić’s parents were invited to give a statement to the police. They talked to the police about whether they received strange messages and calls in the days before the child’s disappearance, whether they noticed unknown people near the house, whether someone contacted them via social networks, and whether they had misunderstandings in their marriage. and what kind of relationship they have with neighbors and friends.
At that moment, the parents were not invited to the polygraph, but the phone was taken from Danka’s mother so that an expert examination could be done. It was also announced that Danka’s mother cannot take the polygraph test because she is pregnant, so the test results would not be valid. They are also for the purpose of expertise, recordings from surveillance cameras of houses in the settlement were also excluded.
March 28 – Arrested men in BiH
The scene that Telegraf reporters found in the early morning hours of the third day of the search were police patrols that thoroughly inspected cars moving near Banjsko polje.
However, more and more attention was focused on operational work, so it started with by browsing the logs of mobile phones at base stations. The focus was also on examination of the phone of the girl’s parents in order to find out if any contact made before the disappearance could indicate the child’s whereabouts.
The focus was also on questioning people who were in the vicinity before or after the girl’s disappearance, in order to determine details that may have been missed during the previous course of the investigation.
When it comes to the search on the ground, an excavator arrived in front of the house in Banjsko polje in order to move the waste around the house, and the police also checked the surrounding shafts. Also, in several places around the house, police officers were seen digging.
Video: Video of the police thoroughly investigating the property around the house where Danka Ilić (2) disappeared
In the afternoon, they were at the house in front of which the girl disappeared two excavators that were removing the landfill located around the house. In addition to removing debris, the excavators also felled trees to clear the area and allow rescuers to approach. Part of the waste was transferred to trucks that moved it to the other end of the Ilić family’s property.
Before the excavators started removing hay and waste, the house and the area around it they were examined with a thermal imaging camera.
The Minister of Internal Affairs also arrived in Bor to visit the people who are looking for Danko.
During this time, the parents of the missing Danka were again with the police, in order to obtain any information that would be useful during the investigation.
They claimed to have information about the girl
During the third day of the quest, three people were arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina because of the suspicion that they could be related to the child’s disappearance. Three men were arrested under the Act of Interpol Belgrade because they announced through the TikTok social network that they were connected to the girl’s disappearance.
They asked for 50,000 convertible marks on that network, or approx 25,000 euros to reveal information about the child’s disappearance. However, everything was searched and it was determined that the girl was not with them. They also had no information about her.
March 29 – Ziggy the dog was looking for Danko
The search entered the fourth day, and two specialist rescue teams from the ruins of Belgrade and Novi Sad arrived in the spa field. 18 firefighters-rescuers arrived on the field from Paet all-terrain vehicles. The famous rescue dog Ziggy, who saved people after the earthquake in Turkey, he was pulled out of retirement and brought to search for little Danka.
On that day too, there was heavy machinery on the field that worked all day to clear the field.
Paz Zigi was on the field since early morning, and left the search area around 3:30 p.m.
On that day, the tunnel leading from the house in Banjsko Polje to the mine in Bor was searched in detail. Underground channels and shafts with a total length of about four and a half kilometers were also searched. However, no traces were found that would indicate that Danka passed there.
Arrested police officer from Bor
On the fourth day of the arrest a police officer from Bor was arrested. He was deprived of his liberty for disclosing information from the investigation.
It was not disclosed to whom he gave the information, and he was subjected to a polygraph test which he failed.
He was then detained for up to 48 hours.
Also, it’s that day the police went to Banjsko Polje with the girl’s mother, to the place where she last saw her daughter, in order to reconstruct the movement on the day the girl disappeared. Danka Ilić’s mother showed every step she took that day, before the child simply disappeared from the yard.
March 30 – Helicopters over Banjski Polje
The search of the terrain continued with the same intensity as in the previous days, and helicopters that flew over the place of the girl’s disappearance were also included, the entire Banjsko polje, but also the wider area around the settlement. Helicopters filmed the terrain, so that later, by reviewing the footage, it could be determined if there was anything suspicious on them.
They flew over the settlement until 3:00 p.m., and they descended low, so that they could record everything thoroughly. During the day, members of the UKP, as well as the police and firefighters-rescuers, were on the ground.
While helicopters were flying in the sky, the house was still being searched on the ground, and the police were digging in that place again.
The girl’s parents spent another day with the police.
Video: The helicopter flies around the house where little Danka disappeared
March 31 – All eyes on Vienna
On the sixth day of the quest, a video shot by a Serbian citizen in Vienna appeared. The video shows two women, who are said to be Romanian and a child who looks like Danka.
The Serbian police immediately contacted their colleagues in Austria and sent Europol all the data and the video.
The man who took the video said he tried to talk to two women who spoke Romanian. He said that they called the child who was with them, but that the girl did not respond to that name.
That’s right the investigation continued in two countries – Serbia and Austria.
The same day a yellow Interpol warrant was also issued, which is issued for missing persons. Even more detailed information is given about Danka’s appearance. Our embassy in that city also appealed to the Serbs in Vienna.
Danka’s pictures were pasted at border crossings and passport control points.
During that time, not much has changed in Banjski Polje. The area around the house itself was still searched and in the village in the same way as in the previous days, helicopters and drones flew over the village.
1. april – Pretražena deponija
Prvog dana aprila, a sedmog dana potrage, policija je radila na utvrđivanju identiteta deteta sa snimka iz Beča.
Na kratko se tragalo i na novoj lokaciji. Bila je to deponija u blizini Banjskog polja. Reporteri Telegrafa tamo su zatekli bager koji je sklanjao otpad, ali i rastresao zemlju, za slučaj da se u njoj nalazi neki trag.
Na teren je izašao i UKP, sa mapom za detaljnu pretragu terena.
Policija je legitimisala sve koji ulaze u Banjsko polje, ali i same meštane u naselju.
Majka, otac i cela bliža porodica devojčice pozvani su da daju iskaz u policiji. Oni su na razgovor u policiji išli u svojstvu građana.
2. april – Mirniji dan u Banjskom Polju
Osmog dana potrage u Banjskom Polju bilo je vidno manje policije, ali se oko kuće ispred koje je devojčica nestala i dalje se kopalo. Lopate i ašove policiji i vatrogascima pozajmljivali su meštani.
Kasnije tokom prepodneva, policajci su ulazili u kuće i stanove meštana kako bi ih pregledali i proverili da li postoji neki trag da je Danka bila tu.
3. april – Osumnjičeni bili na mestu nestanka
Deveti dna potrage istraga je proširena na teritoriji Srbije. Tog dana je i u Banjskom Polju bio prisutan veći broj pripadnika policije, ali je potraga tog dana veoma ličila na sve prethodne.
Ono što se tog dana dogodilo, a što mediji i šira javnost nisu znali, jeste da su na mesto nestanka devojčice došli osumnjičeni za ubistvo. Kako se tada pretpostavljalo, dva svedoka su policiji pokazivala teren, dok ih je policija snimala. Kasnije će se ispostaviti da situacija nije bila baš takva.
Kamera Telegrafa zabeležila je dvojicu osumnjičenih za ubistvo, a da toga niko nije bio svestan.
Video: Svedoci sa policijom pretražuju teren u Banjskom polju gde je nestala mala Danka Ilić
Bečka policija tog dana je poslala saopštenje u kom je priloženo nekoliko fotografija i pozvali su osobe sa snimka, odnosno dve Rumunke koje se nalaze na snimku iz Beča, da se jave policiji, odnosno da oni koji prepoznaju žene obaveste nadležne o njihovom identitetu.
I tog dana policija je sa psima pretraživala dvorište kuće, kao i okolna brda i šumu.
Uveče tog dana u medijima se oglasila i Rumunka sa snimka iz Beča, koja je rekla da od objave snimka “proživljava pakao”. Istakla je da je išla u policiju, ali da su je vratili kući i da se na snimku nalazi sa svojom ćerkom. Uz to je priložila i fotografije deteta.
Predsednik Aleksandra Vučić 4. aprila saopštio je da je Danka Ilić ubijena.
Njenog tela još nema.
(Telegraf.rs)
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