Teresa Ribeiro on the Slavko Ćuruvija murder trial: We need to break the vicious circle of crimes and impunity
Cenzolovka 06.03.2023 | Jelena L. Petković
The trial for the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija will definitely be a strong test for the judicial system and democracy in Serbia. Murder of a journalist is an extreme case and the punishment should be proportional, of course. We need to break the vicious circle of crimes and impunity, says the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, for Cenzolovka, just before the opening of the process before the Court of Appeal on Monday, 6 March.
Photo: Cenzolovka, Jelena L. Petković Cenzolovka: It will be 24 years in April since journalist Slavko Ćuruvija was killed. The court process began eight years ago. How do you view the fact that it took 16 years for the indictment to be written and the trial to begin, and then another eight years for the trial to reach its final stage in front of the Court of Appeal? Ribeiro: The time of justice is sometimes different from our perception of time in other dimensions