Perisic was charged with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the 42-month-long siege of Sarajevo and a missile attack on Zagreb. This March the prosecution of the Hague-based UN tribunal recommended that he be found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, while the defence called for an acquittal.
A 13-count indictment charged Perisic with aiding and abetting crimes against civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Four counts referred to the shelling of Zagreb with an "Orkan" multiple-barrel rocket launcher on 2 and 3 May 1995 when seven civilians were killed and at least 194 wounded.
Perisic turned himself in on 7 March 2005 and was granted provisional release pending trial, which opened on 2 October 2008.