BELGRADE, March 13 (Hina) - Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's Vice-Premier and Acting Premier, confirmed on Thursday evening for Television B92 that some 200 persons who had been arrested so far in connection with the assassination of Premier
Zoran Djindjic also included Jovica Stanisic, a former head of the Serbian interior ministry's State Security Service, and a former commander of special operations units, the so-called Red Berets, Franko Simatovic a.k.a Frenki.
BELGRADE, March 13 (Hina) - Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's Vice-Premier
and Acting Premier, confirmed on Thursday evening for Television
B92 that some 200 persons who had been arrested so far in connection
with the assassination of Premier Zoran Djindjic also included
Jovica Stanisic, a former head of the Serbian interior ministry's
State Security Service, and a former commander of special
operations units, the so-called Red Berets, Franko Simatovic a.k.a
Frenki. #L#
In line with a decision imposing a state of emergency in Serbia,
which was declared by Serbia's Acting President Natasa Micic on
Wednesday evening, the police have the right to detain suspects
without a court warrant for up to 30 days.
The Serbian interior ministry today confirmed that the police had
so far arrested some 40 members of the "Zemun Clan", while the prime
suspects, a former commander of the Red Berets, Milorad Lukovic
a.k.a. Legija, and Dusan Spasojevic a.k.a. Siptar were still on the
run.
(hina) rml sb