BELGRADE, March 28 (Hina) - The Serbian police have arrested six people who guarded the house of former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mirjana Markovic in Belgrade's elite neighbourhood of Dedinje, the
electronic media reported on Friday evening.
BELGRADE, March 28 (Hina) - The Serbian police have arrested six
people who guarded the house of former Serbian and Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mirjana Markovic in
Belgrade's elite neighbourhood of Dedinje, the electronic media
reported on Friday evening. #L#
The arrested are members of the Yugoslav Left, a party once headed
by Markovic. They were armed with long-barrel weapons, but did not
resist arrest.
Following this week's discovery of the remains of former Serbian
President Ivan Stambolic, the Serbian government stated that his
murder was politically motivated.
The Serbian authorities stated the police had arrested Stambolic's
killers, four members of the so-called Red Berets, a unit for
special operations that was disbanded this week.
According to government officials, Stambolic was killed so he could
not run in a presidential election in 2000. The Belgrade media
report that this fact is sufficient to conclude who ordered
Stambolic's murder.
Commenting on the case, Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihailovic
said the police would question Milosevic in The Hague, as well as
his wife Mira. The police have been looking for her since yesterday,
but they did not find her in her house in Belgrade nor in her other
house in Pozarevac. A couple of days ago Markovic was to appear in
court in an embezzlement trial but her attorneys said she would not
come as she was travelling abroad to visit her husband.
(hina) rml