January 16, 2019<\/p>\n
The Commission, which is headed by Veran Mati\u0107, reacted to suspicions made public in media reports from the last hearing, which reported that the prosecutor’s words were that \u0106uruvija was \u201cmurdered at the order of the government leadership, while the jury was the entire (then) Government of Serbia\u201d.<\/p>\n
The accuracy of these allegations was also brought into question by Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, who stated that \u201cthe prosecutor merely repeated what was said by (Aleksandar) Tijani\u0107\u201d. Journalist Aleksandar Tijani\u0107 was an associate and friend of Slavko \u0106uruvija, after which he served for a long time as the director of Radio-Television Serbia. At the time of \u0106uruvija’s murder, Vu\u010di\u0107 was serving as the Serbian Minister of Information.<\/p>\n
The Commission announced that the press \u201ccompletely reconstructed that part of the closing statement that Prosecutor Mandi\u0107 began delivering on 25th December last year\u201d, and that \u201cfrom the original text of the prosecution’s closing statement, the public can assures themselves that the prosecutor did not accuse the Serbian Government of murdering the publisher of publications Evropljanin and Dnevni Telegraf\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the transcript of part of prosecutor Mandi\u0107’s closing statement, which was submitted to the media by the Commission, speaking before the court he actually cited Tijani\u0107’s statement \u201cthat Slavka \u0106uruvija could only have been murdered by the state, because the state then had a monopoly on physical liquidations; that the verdict was brought at the highest place, that it was a collective act, that the composition of the jury corresponded to the composition of the then Government, that the state mechanism for executions organised and carried out this murder\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
January 16, 2019 The Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists announced that at the last hearing in the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko \u0106uruvija, the deputy prosecutor for organised crime, Milenko Mandi\u0107, did not use his closing statement to accuse the then-Serbian Government of having been the jury when the state’s leadership brought the decision to murder \u0106uruvia. Journalist and publisher Slavko \u0106uruvija was gunned down in April 1999. The Commission, which is headed by Veran Mati\u0107, reacted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en","tag-trial-for-the-murder-of-slavko-curuvija"],"yoast_head":"\n