Slavko Curuvija Foundation is shocked by the Court of Appeal verdict: A country not punishing murderers has no future
Cenzolovka 02.02.2024
Slavko Curuvija Foundation is shocked by the Court of Appeal’s decision to set free former members of the State Security Service accused of the murder of Slavko Curuvija. This is a deeply disturbing judgment for family, friends, colleagues and followers of the journalist and publisher who was murdered because he had been publicly criticising the criminal regime of Slobodan Milosevic. This judgment is a clear sign that the state is not capable of fighting the darkest spots of its own services from the 1990s
Despite the fact that both domestic and international audiences for almost a quarter of the century demanded bringing this crime to light and the just punishment for its perpetrators, the five-judge panel of the Court of Appeal demonstrated that instead of evidence and laws, they found it more important to protect representatives of the state immersed in crime and secret service that for many times proved that human lives do not matter to them. The members of the
