Prosecutor seeks maximum sentences for Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder, defence attorneys request clients’ release
Cenzolovka 29.03.2019
The prosecutor in the trial for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija has sought that those accused of this murder be sentenced to a maximum sentence of 40 years. The defenders of the accused, meanwhile, requested that all four suspects be acquitted.
Milenko Mandić, deputy prosecutor for organised crime, said in his closing statement that the indictment, filed at the end of 2014, had been proven during the trial, and that the four accused members of the State Security service, led by head of the service Radomir Marković, had murdered Ćuruvija on 11 th April 1999, according to an order issued by an unnamed person “from the highest structures of the Serbian government” and that they acted as
