BELGRADE, April 21 (Hina) - Eighteen members of the Red Berets and the Zemun Clan took part in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, Belgrade media editors-in-chief were told at a briefing at the Serbian
government on Monday.
BELGRADE, April 21 (Hina) - Eighteen members of the Red Berets and
the Zemun Clan took part in the assassination of Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic, Belgrade media editors-in-chief were told
at a briefing at the Serbian government on Monday. #L#
Among the 18 were two members of the Security Information Agency who
were in charge of security at the villa Djindjic lived at in
Belgrade's Dedinje district. One of the two was paid 1,200 euros for
telling the assassins when the PM's car left for the government
building.
Journalists were told the entire operation was coordinated from one
of his flats by Milorad Lukovic aka Legija, a former commander of
the Special Operations Units aka Red Berets, who is at large.
After the murder, one of the assassins buried the sniper gun used to
kill the PM at a construction site near the Federation Palace in New
Belgrade. The assassins had several cars which had been parked
close to the government building, where Djindjic was killed, the
night before the slaying. They also had elaborate plans which were
to provide them with backing if something unexpected happened.
Reporters were also told the names of the people who killed former
Serbian President Ivan Stambolic, whose body was recently dug up at
Fruska Gora hill. He had gone missing on 25 August 2000.
According to founded suspicion, Stambolic was slain by Branko
Bercek, whose helpers were Dusan Maricic aka Gumar, until recently
the commander of the Red Berets, which were dissolved after the
Djindjic murder, and Red Berets members Leonid Milivojevic, Nenad
Sare, and Nenad Bujosevic.
Bujosevic is in custody after being sentenced to 15 years in jail
for participation in the assassination of Vuk Draskovic in late
1999, when four officials of Draskovic's Serbian Revival Movement,
the most significant opposition party at the time, were killed.
Journalists were also told that an anti-aircraft rocket launcher
had been found at the villa Bosanka in Dedinje. This was the
residence of Momcilo Mandic, a Bosnian businessman allegedly close
to Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Radovan Karadzic. Police will
release a more detailed statement in a couple of days.
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