Izvor: N1 televizija, 13.Jul.2018, 14:49 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Court dismisses mutiny charges against Serbian PM’s killers
A Belgrade court on Friday acquitted the commanders of the special police unit who were indicted for mutiny just prior to the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
The Higher Court ruled to acquit Special Operations Unit (JSO) commander Milorad Ulemek aka Legija and eight other JSO officers and troopers who were charged with organizing a mutiny in 2001.
Ulemek and JSO senior officer Zvezdan Jovanovic (who was also indicted for mutiny) were tried and >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << sentenced to 40 years in prison for the killing of the prime minister. The JSO was an armed special forces unit under the command of the Serbian State Security Service (RDB) and was formed at the start of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
The JSO officers and troopers were indicted for mutiny and refusing all communication and orders with their superior command, Internal Affairs Minister and Prime Minister Djindjic between November 9 and 17 2001. The unit deployed twice from its base in the town of Kula to block the Novi Sad – Subotica highway on November 10 and part of the highway through Belgrade on November 12.
The indictment said that the JSO clearly demonstrated its readiness to commit acts of violence unless its demands for the dismissal of then Internal Affairs Minister Dusan Mihajlovic, RDB chief Goran Petrovic and his deputy Zoran Mijatovic were met.
The JSO mutiny is viewed as an introduction to the Djindjic assassination. It ended in compromise when Djindjic agreed to dismiss Petrovic and Mijatovic and appoint Andrija Savic and Ulemek’s close associate Milorad Bracanovic to replace them.
The publicly stated reason for the JSO mutiny was the arrested of the Banovic brothers who were indicted for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal.
