BELGRADE, Dec 25 (Hina) - The second indictee in the trial of 36 people accused of involvement in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic confessed on Thursday to personally liquidating Djindjic.
BELGRADE, Dec 25 (Hina) - The second indictee in the trial of 36 people
accused of involvement in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister
Zoran Djindjic confessed on Thursday to personally liquidating
Djindjic.#L#
"I killed him personally," reads the statement of Zvezdan Jovanovic,
which was read out at a special court for organised crime in Belgrade.
Jovanovic gave the statement to the police previously.
The panel of judges on Wednesday refused a request by Jovanovic's
attorney that his client's statement be read out in a closed session.
According to the statement, the motive behind the assassination was
exclusively of a political nature, i.e. to stop the transfer of
Serbian citizens to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. "I am not
a criminal. It was a political assassination because The Hague is
Serbia's biggest disgrace," reads the statement.
Jovanovic also said that it was Milorad Lukovic aka Legija, a former
commander of the Serbian Interior Ministry's special operations units
and the principal indictee who is still at large, who had insisted on
Djindjic's killing. The operation was code-named "Stop The Hague".
Jovanovic also described in his statement some earlier attempts to
kill Djindjic.
After the statement was read out, the trial was adjourned until
further notice.
(Hina) rml