The Court of Appeals in the Serbian capital on February 2 overturned the convictions of four former intelligence officers on charges related to the murder of independent journalist and government critic Slavko Curuvija in April 1999.
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First-instance verdicts were passed twice – in 2019 and 2021. Four former members of State Security were sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison. Radomir Marković, former head of the State Security Service (SDB), who has been in prison since 2001 for other political murders for which he was sentenced to 40 years, was sentenced to 30 years. Milan Radonjić, head of the Belgrade Department of the State Security, was also sentenced to 30 years. Ratko Romić, chief
Slavko Ćuruvija was killed around 5 pm, in the center of the Serbian capital – Belgrade, in the passage in front of the building where he lived. The Ministry of Internal Affairs at the time announced that „he was killed by a firearm, by unknown perpetrators, and that the workers of the Secretariat in Belgrade are intensively searching for the perpetrators of this criminal act.“ The killing happened during the NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia. Six days before the
Slavko Ćuruvija, Serbian journalist and publisher, founder of the newspapers "Nedeljni Telegraf", "Dnevni Telegraf" and "Evropljanin" was killed on Orthodox Easter Sunday, April 11, 1999. He was shot from behind. One shot hit him in the head. The second went through his heart. A total of 17 bullets were fired at him. The killers pistol-whipped Slavko s wife Branka Prpa unconscious.