As of: April 5, 2024, 5:40 a.m
By: Nadja Zinsmeister, Moritz Bletzinger
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Little Danka Ilić is dead. Apparently run over by two municipal workers in a white Fiat. There is also a terrible accusation against one of the two.
Update from April 5th, 5:27 a.m.:
The two men are said to have run over little Danka in a white Fiat Panda, Serbian media report. Video from a surveillance camera has now emerged that is said to show the fatal accident.
According to the Blic
newspaper,
the suspects are two municipal workers and the death car was their company car. After the accident, they packed Danka's body in the trunk and then disposed of it at a wild landfill.
Search for the body: Two men are said to have run over Danka and then disposed of her in a wild garbage dump. © Pixsell/Imago
There are rumors about the exact cause of the little girl's death. The Informer newspaper writes that Danka was still alive after the crash and that one of the suspects strangled her with his bare hands. Traces of blood were found on the bumper of the Fiat, but the body was not yet found, and the suspects are now supposed to help.
The whole of Europe was looking for missing Danka (1): Serbia's President announces sad news
Update from April 4th, 10:45 a.m.:
“We have bad news,” says Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at an extraordinary press conference: “Danka Ilić is dead.” Two men were arrested and are said to have confessed to the crime. Not far from the weekend home of the one-year-old's parents, traces of blood were discovered in a car and later Danka's body. According to Vučić, at the moment the suspects are being taken to the place where the body could be.
Mourning in Serbia: The missing Danka (1) is dead - people place candles and flowers in the city of Bor. © Davor Javorovic/Pixsell/Imago
The whole of Europe is looking for missing Danka (1) – setback over mysterious video from Austria
Update from April 4th, 10:40 a.m.:
It seems as if the trail from Vienna is leading to a dead end. A lady contacted the online portal
Kosmo.at
and claimed that it was she and her daughter in the video - and not Danka. The associated search in Austria is no longer available on the Vienna State Police Department website.
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Serbia's President announces: The missing Danka is dead, two men have confessed to the crime. © Interpol
Search for Danka (1): Police are looking for two women from Austria because of the video
Update from April 3rd, 10:37 p.m.:
There seems to be a new lead in the case of the missing Danka from Serbia. After a Serb living in Vienna suspected that he had spotted the toddler accompanied by two women in a Vienna tram stop on March 30, the police evaluated the recordings. She assumes that it is actually the missing girl.
“The man was in the First District around 8:00 p.m. when he noticed a small child accompanied by two adult women at the 'Schottenring' tram stop,” the Vienna State Police Directorate said on Wednesday afternoon. The witness tried to record the girl as best as possible and sent a video to the officials in Serbia, who passed the material on to their Austrian colleagues. “After viewing the image material by relatives, they assume that it is very likely that it could be the girl in question from Serbia.” There is suspicion of child abduction, it said.
The police are now searching intensively for the two women from the video and have published screenshots to help in the search. Both were wearing strikingly colorful clothes at the time the photo was taken. One of the women had dark brown hair, probably pinned up, and was wearing a yellow vest and yellow long jeans. The second woman has shorter blonde hair and was wearing a red jacket. Anyone who has seen the two women or the girl or has information about their whereabouts is asked to call
01-31310-33800
.
The whole of Europe is looking for missing Danka (1) – mysterious video from Austria emerged
Original report from April 1st:
Bor – The one-year-old suddenly disappeared while playing in a suburban settlement near Bor in Serbia. There have already been several arrests in the case of the missing Danka (1), but there is no breakthrough in the search - similar to the search for the missing Lina (15) from Alsace.
Girl (1) from Serbia missing: Search throughout Europe – Interpol announces a manhunt
“When I turned around, she was gone,” the mother of little Danka Ilić told the newspaper
Blic
. The girl has been missing since March 26th and what is probably the largest missing person search in the country's history is underway. For the first time, Serbia has activated the “Find me” system, which informs the public when searching for missing children.
Police, fire brigade and volunteers had combed the area in the suburb of Banjsko Polje with a large contingent, and even sniffer dogs and excavators were used. However, no trace emerged in the area.
First trace of missing Danka (1) leads to Austria: Video from Vienna surfaced
It wasn't until seven days later that the first suspected trace of Danka followed - and it leads to Austria. A Serb living in Vienna claims to have seen the one-year-old on the street there on March 30, accompanied by two supposedly Romanian women. He contacted the Serbian authorities and played them a video.
It shows a small child who at least looks very similar to the missing Danka. Light brown hair, a pacifier in his mouth, about 80 centimeters tall.
Missing girl in Austria? “We have to be optimistic”
The authorities reacted across Europe. Interpol issued a yellow alert (missing person who cannot report themselves), the Austrian police joined the search and Europol is supporting the search.
However, the video is only a vague trace so far. Not sure if this is actually Danka Ilić. “We have to be optimistic,” said police major Otović Pajanonić on the
RTV Pink
channel about the Europe-wide manhunt. “We are continuing the investigation here, the Vienna police are working on identification and location.”
Interpol is looking for Danka Ilić from Serbia
According to her parents, Danka responds to her name, but doesn't speak herself yet. Interpol asks that tips be submitted to local or national police authorities. They then pass on verified information to Interpol.
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