As Serbian Journalist’s Murder Goes Unpunished, Verdict Comes Under Scrutiny
Cenzolovka 14.02.2024
BIRN’s analysis of the controversial acquittal verdict in the trial of four Serbian State Security operatives for the assassination of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija shows how troublesome issues with evidence and witness testimony led the court to clear the defendants.
“Today, first of all, I want to apologise to the citizens of Serbia, to the family of Mr. Curuvija, for the 14-year wait for those who, we suspect, committed the murder of Slavko Curuvija, to finally come to justice,” Serbia’s then deputy prime minister Aleksandar Vucic told a press conference in Belgrade on January 14, 2014. The press conference was about the arrest of Milan Radonjic and Miroslav Kurak, who were being held on the suspicion that, as State Security
