30. 08. 2006

NEW INFORMATION IN ĆURUVIJA CASE?

BELGRADE, August 30, 2006 (B92) - Progress may be made this fall in the case of murdered journalist Slavko Ćuruvija. The Special Prosecutor’s Office has told B92 that solving this case poses a true test for the Serbian judicial system. Special Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanović is soon expected to name the suspects in the murder of the editor-in-chief of daily Telegraf and Evropljanin, and process the case. If he is unable to do this, the prosecutor will open up the case to the Serbian public and publish all of the facts and investigations, including why and because of whom the case could not be processed, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has stated. It has been seven years since the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija. His brother Jovo has stated on several occasions that the case remains unsolved because of the lack of political will in Serbia to find the murders, pointing to the fact that the archives and files of the security services have never been opened. The Internal Affairs Ministry’s General Inspectorate, which controls the work of the police, recently stated that the police have renewed investigations into several investigations of murders which occurred during the reign of the regime of Slobodan Milošević. The results of the investigations were never published.