A football ultra has survived a tenth assassination attempt following a shooting in a trendy restaurant.
Nenad Alajbegović Alibeg was sitting with a 30-year-old friend in the restaurant when the hooded gunman entered.
His friend, named as Nenad Krstić, was wounded in the attack and required hospitalisation.
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Alajbegović managed to run upstairs and was uninjured in the shooting.
It is believed he was the target of the attack, but the gunman confused him for his friend.
As they share the same name and were wearing the same coloured shirts, the shooter is believed to have heard a waiter calling one of them “Nenad” and shot the wrong man.
The alleged attack took place at the Durmitor restaurant in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Saturday (6 Dec) evening.
The suspect fled the scene after the shooting and remains at large.
Alajbegović is the former leader of the Zabranjeni, a passionate group of fans of the football team Partizan Belgrade.
The group has been in a long-standing conflict with the rival faction Alkatraz.
He has reportedly survived 10 attempts against his life since the 1990s.
He said: “Since 2010, they’ve shot at me six times.
“However, during the nineties, as far as I remember, I was the target of at least three other attempts.
“By the way, not a single attack on me has been solved so far.
“I hope it finally comes out who wants to kill me.”
Earlier this year, Alajbegović was reportedly attacked while sitting in traffic in the passenger seat of a friend’s car, as reported by Need To Know.
He explained: “I don’t know who tried to kill me again, I have nothing to do with fans and their conflicts and clans.
“I haven’t attended a match since 2010 nor have I had any problems with the law.”
He explained that his income comes from a construction company he set up in the UK.
“I live on the income I receive every month from my account in England where I have a construction company.
“The state can look into these payments at any time.”
He added: “As a kid, I had four criminal convictions.
“And later, up until 2010, I had four more.
“I was in prison for two years for robbery, but as I said before, I have been clean before the law for over a decade.”
The investigation into the restaurant shooting is ongoing.
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