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Tijana's abduction and disappearance on July 26, 2014. and thirteen days of the search for her, showed deficiency of all our procedures in such cases.

From the moment she was last seen until her sneaker was found at 00:32 am, it took seven minutes, in the distance of a hundred meters.

Within five minutes a search for her had been launched, with the participation of her friends, their parents, relatives and residents of Bajmok.

The tournament organizer called the police at 01:05 am on the insistence of Tijana’s friends and later Tijana’s sister, Saska called them too.

In the streets, fields and villages, a hundred people searched Bajmok for almost an hour.

Police are involved into the search around 01:15 am. They took evidence, spent an hour with the locals and went, leaving the evidence to Tijana’s mother, so she could “bring them to the Police Department at 7:00 am and report the disappearance of a minor”.

And the suspect ...

He was during this time driving around the surrounding fields with Tijana in the back seat of his car, at a distance of less than three kilometers from where Tijana was kidnapped.

According to his statement, he got lost in the rural roads around 2:40 am and found himself in front of the panel "border" with Hungary, after which he came to the paved portion of the road and passed with his car next to the house where Tijana's grandparents live.

From Bajmok, he went out on the way to his birthplace Aleksa Santic, on the road to Sombor, around 03:00 am, passing by the police station!

Tijana has been receiving phone calls to her mobile phone and these calls would later testify the suspect in his statement saying that he "heard the phone ring while Tijana was in the car".

The phone activated itself twice, because of renewing of the applications ("apps update") in the device.

In the panic pleas of the family that Tijana is in danger and that they should locate her phone, because it is ringing somewhere and its not turned off, the police responded that there is no jurisdiction for that and that for such a procedure there should be a special approval and that it can take some time.

It takes less then a minute to locate a mobile phone.

We knew that for Tijana every second mattered. And unfortunately, that is what happened.

On the other hand, Bajmok, a town of 7.500 inhabitants was not blocked, and it took only two police patrols on the roads to Subotica and to Sombor.

The police officers who came to the scene, “respected the law” and waited twenty-four hours before they requested the location of Tijana’s phone.

It turned off at 02:28 am, because of the discharged batteries. Technical devices do not know what "law" is.

Change the law!

And in the morning…

The first news of Tijana's disappearance appeared on the portal Bajmok.co, but without her surname and with her blurred picture.

The "law" is like that! Looking for a minor whose picture you cannot see!

Again some law!

In comments to the news, Tijana's friends set her pictures on "Facebook".

The “law” couldn’t stop them!

Change the law and listen to children.

They may be small children, but they are great people, who live in the modern world.

Thirty of Tijana’s friends, for more than twenty-four hours, although visibly tired, did not leave the place where Tijana disappeared.

Children organized themselves and printed posters. Bajmok, Aleksa Santic, Djurdjin, Stari and Novi Zednik, Misicevo, Pacir and other surrounding villages, as well as Subotica, Sombor and surrounding cities were plastered with hundreds of posters with Tijana’s data.

The children shared Tijana’s pictures on the border crossing with Hungary.

They opened the first "Facebook" page for information about Tijana's disappearance.

The day is passing, then the night and again another day.

The wait, pain, tears and fear in the eyes of the family, relatives, Tijana’s friends and the inhabitants of Bajmok.

Police Administration in Subotica only on the fourth day, on July 29, 2014. published a statement regarding Tijana’s disappearance.

National Bureau "Interpol", the Hungarian police and non-governmental organizations "Astra", published the warrants on their portals immediately after obtaining the release.

On July 29, 2014. from some other "Facebook" group whose stand out members were Dragana Maksimovic from Belgrade and Nebojsa Kostic from Lugovo near Sombor founded their own "Facebook" group "Help to find Tijana Juric" which will until today follow all our activities in connection with Tijana.

That day they will establish Nestali.rs.

The first website in Serbia for the search for missing persons.

They do not know each other.

They don’t know Tijana nor family Juric, but want to help them.

They are unemployed, Dragana is twenty-three and Nebojsa is twenty-six years old.

They work in two shifts.

Dragana worked during the day, because she has a little child, and Nebojsa worked at night.

Members of the group, whose number increased day by day and a few days later there were over 36,000, at the request of the administrators Dragana and Nebojsa start the action:

1. Making of posters with pictures and information of Tijana in more than twenty languages (Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, German, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish, French, Dutch, ...),

- Thousands of posters are posted in over twenty countries,

2. They wrote e-mails to NGO "Amber Alert Europe", with headquarters in Belgium, which deals with the search for missing children in the territory of Europe,

- Tijana’s information was published on their website www.amberalert.eu on August 01, 2014.,

3. They published Tijana’s pictures and information on the most important and most visited Internet sites in over thirty countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Italy, England, Greece, Russia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, ...),

4. they wrote e-mails to "Google" to put Tijana’s picture on their initial page ("Google Doodle"),

5. They wrote e-mails to public figures to give their support and put Tijana's picture on their "Facebook" and "Twitter" profiles,

- Dragana, as the administrator of the page, wrote over 600 e-mails and messages via “Twitter”, which waere published in some media,

- On the requirements of the group members, responded dozens of public figures, and among the first were Seka Aleksic, Jelena Karleusa, Sasa Kovacevic ...,

6. For one hour, and then during the entire search and until today, thousands of people changed their profile picture on their "Facebook" accounts to Tijana's image,

7. on Dragana’s request five billboards were made, which unfortunately were not set up as planned, in Backa Topola and Novi Sad, because in the day when they were printed, Tijana was found, and after that two of the five billboards were used as big pictures in front which citizens of Subotica and Bajmok lit candles.

Neither Dragana, nor Nebojsa could believe the degree of the union and organization their group got.

Members of the group sent them as proof, pictures of posted posters, which they set up in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and other countries. They get a few pictures of glued posters on the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

The published data on the website of NGO "Amber Alert Europe" for Tijana, was the first on the list, it was written that she is from Hungary and the information remained there until she was found, because Republic of Serbia does not have its own portal Nestali.rs.

When she was found on August 07, 2014. Tijana was the eighteenth on the list.

Seventeen children went missing in six days. On that morning of the twenty-two children on the list, three were from the Croatia and the other children were from Hungary, Polish, Romanian and French.

When you want to read the data of the Croatian missing children, their site Nestali.hr will open automatically.

When you are looking for information of Tijana, the page of Interpol will be opened, because we do not have Nestali.rs.

Are the citizens of Croatia better than us, because they realize the need for such a portal?

Are their children more valuable to them then our children for us?

The one thing I am sure - they are faster and more organized than us in this matter.

If nothing else, we are left to write down their portal and to make our own Nestali.rs.

Will it really be called like that or it will be an address like Nestali.com or Nestali... we don’t care - but it is essential to exist a site like that.

For the opening of the internet portal Tijana.rs address it took us two hours, and until the appearance of the first data which everyone can see on the internet, four more hours. So, a total of six hours is needed to open an internet address.

If the authorized body of Republic of Serbia would take over the running of an internet website for missing persons, such as the Ministry of Interior Affairs, for the registration of the address Nestali.org.rs they would need less than an hour, with just a little good will.

Besides that, only they have the authority to publish personal information of a missing minor.

That can be done by some other organizations who has signed a Memorandum with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of Serbia.

Editor of the portal Tijana.rs, Aleksandar Dovragovic was on August 29, 2014. in the name of family Juric, at a meeting with representatives of non-governmental organizations "Astra", Olivera Otasevic, Jelena Buvac and Elena Krsmanovic and with them had an agreement on mutual cooperation.

The NGO “Astra”, has been actively dealing with the problem of missing children since 2012. when it introduced the European number 116000 for reporting missing children, which is operational in twenty-seven countries. Since 2000., they have been dealing with the problem of human trafficking and the problem of missing adults and children, who are suspected to have become victims of the trafficking chain.

It took two years for NGO “Astra” to obtain the signature of the Minister for the Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, and this cooperation was finally confirmed on February 14, 2014.. Among other things, this document provides the development of more efficient systems in the search for missing children.

In cooperation with Igor Juric, they submitted a request for a meeting with Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic in October 2014., on the occasion of introducing the system “Tijana Alert”, after which an initial meeting was held with the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia.

In the coming period active work in this field is expected to resume, and also with the inclusion of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs and taking the necessary steps to implement the mechanism of alarming the public in cases of missing children.

All the missing minors, that parents will report to portal Tijana.rs in the next perioduntil the start of the portal Nestali.rs, we will forward to NGO "Astra" in the hope that those applications in Republic of Serbia will be fulfilled soon.

NGO "Astra" has trained professional employed persons and elaborate plans, both preventive and procedures with children who are found and survived trauma during the abduction.

What we don’t have is the ability to immediately report a missing person and to publicate it’s data, all while parents personally don’t sign the authorized forms for approval.

Our initiative is that NGO "Astra" get data directly from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of Serbia, immediately after registering the missing minor and have them immediately published on their website.

Is it so difficult to adopt this procedure in the context of police work?

It's not - it just needs to consult those who have already done something about it and take advantage of their solutions.

In Greece, the portal for missing children is leaded by a non-governmental organization and in Croatia portal Nestali.hr is leading by the Croatian Ministry of the Interior.

We do not mind who will lead the portal Nestali.rs, but it must exist.

And during that time ....

During that time on "our" page Nestali.rs on "Facebook" group "Help us find Tijana Juric", dated July 29, 2014. when it was founded, until August 08, 2014., at 10:00 pm, have been left 646,000 comments in just ten days.

Dragana and Nebojsa received more than three thousand messages a day with a question "Is she found?".

By August 16, 2014., for eighteen days, the page was visited by more than 1.421.000 users.

Every morning, people all over Europe and many other countries woke up and from early morning before school or at work were checking "Is she found?".

Unfortunately - NOT.

But because of all the people who have helped us or just thought of Tijana, we are left only to make an effort to "NEVER FORGET" and TO "HAPPEN NEVER AGAIN".

Source: Tijana.rs.
Photo: Facebook.
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