BELGRADE, March 9 (Hina) - A witness who was to appear in the trial of persons indicted for the murder of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic has been killed, a judge told Radio B92 on Tuesday.
BELGRADE, March 9 (Hina) - A witness who was to appear in the trial of
persons indicted for the murder of Serbian prime minister Zoran
Djindjic has been killed, a judge told Radio B92 on Tuesday.#L#
Kujo Krijestorac, 52, owner of several shops and bakeries, was killed
outside his Belgrade house on March 1 this year, Judge Maja Kovacevic
Tomic, a spokeswoman for the Special Department for the Fight against
Organised Crime at the Belgrade District Court, confirmed.
The court has received information from the Office of the Special
Prosecutor that one of the witnesses in the Djindjic assassination
trial was killed in Belgrade last week.
"Kujo Krijestorac, of Zarkovo, was to be heard as a witness. A person
of the same name was killed last week, and since his name is uncommon,
he was most likely the witness," Kovacevic Tomic said.
Krijestorac was heard as a witness during the investigation into the
assassination of Djindjic. He told the investigators that at the time
of the assassination on March 12 last year he saw three men running
out of the building from which the prime minister had been shot. He
identified the accused Vladimir Milisavljevic aka Budala, who is still
on the run, as a person who had waited for the three men who ran out
of the building.
Former deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic told the radio on Tuesday
that the murder of the witness showed that "the whole conspiracy and
the group that killed the prime minister still exist".
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