The Prosecutor's Office of the Hague Tribunal will not file an appeal against the verdict against Croatian generals Anto Gotovina, Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak, the chief prosecutor's advisor Frederik Svinen told Beta. 24 years in prison, and Markač to 18 years in prison for the persecution of the Serbian population from Kninska Krajina during Operation Storm in 1995. decision of the prosecutors, General Čermak, who was acquitted by the verdict, was acquitted. On April 15, the first-instance panel of the Hague Tribunal sentenced Croatian General Anta Gotovina to 24 years and Mladen Markač to 18 years in prison for crimes against the Serbian population of Kninska during Krajina and after Operation Storm. 1995. According to the verdict, Gotovina (53), who commanded Oluja, and Markač (53), as commander of the special police, were members of a joint criminal enterprise, led by the then Croatian president Franjo Tuđman, whose goal was the expulsion of the Serbian population from Kninska Krajina, which was the allegation of the indictment. Gotovina and Markač were found guilty of persecution, deportation, robbery, murder, wanton destruction, inhuman acts and cruel treatment of the Serbian population in Krajina, from the beginning of August to the end of September 1995. the verdict, as reported by the Croatian media, is not yet known. Markac's lawyer, Goran Mikulić, stated that the announcement of the appeal points to a wrong application of the law in the verdict, as well as a wrong interpretation of the facts, especially with regard to the joint criminal enterprise, which is contested both from a legal and a formal factual point of view .
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