Today is the verdict for the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija

Let us remind you that Ćuruvija was killed on April 11, 1999, and the verdict, by which the court will announce whether the accused are guilty or not, will be pronounced against the then head of the Department of State Security, Radomir Marković, the former head of the Belgrade Center for State Security, Milan Radonjić, a member of that center, Ratko Romić , as well as Miroslav Kurak, who is on the run
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Slavko Ćuruvija, Photo: Archives
Slavko Ćuruvija, Photo: Archives
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After 20 years since the murder of the owner and editor of Dnevni Telegraf Slavko Ćuruvija, the Special Court in Belgrade will pronounce the first-instance verdict against the accused today.

Let us remind you that Ćuruvija was killed on April 11, 1999, and the verdict, by which the court will announce whether the defendants are guilty or not, will be delivered to the then head of the Department of State Security, Radomir Marković, the former head of the Belgrade Center for State Security, Milan Radonjić, a member of that center, Ratko Romić , as well as Miroslav Kurak, who is on the run and was tried in absentia.

Both the prosecution and the defense will have the right to appeal this court decision to the Court of Appeal. Marković and Radonjić are charged with the criminal offense of inciting serious murder, while Romić and Kurak are accused of serious murder in complicity.

The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime proposed to the court in its closing statement to sentence all four defendants to maximum prison sentences of 40 years each, while they and their defense attorneys requested acquittals. The Prosecutor's Office believes that the person who ordered the murder was "the top of the state at that time".

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