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Serbian court confirms sentences of Djindjic murderers
Oct 17, 2009, 7:56 GMT
Belgrade - Serbia's Supreme Court confirmed maximum prison sentences for the murderers of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, closing the case once and for all, Blic newspaper reported Saturday.
Appeals by assassin Zvezdan Jovanovic and Milorad Ulemek Legija, who organized the murder, were dismissed. Each will serve 40 years in prison for the murder of Djindjic in March 2003, the daily reported.
The court dismissed their appeals as 'unfounded'. Since neither Ulemek nor Jovanovic has the right to further appeal, what the media have been calling 'the country's most important trial' is finished.
Djindjic became prime minister in October 2000 when late dictator Slobodan Milosevic was ousted. Djindjic was the first democratically elected premier of Serbia.
For many he was the hope for Serbia to join the European Union and move on from the legacy of bloody 1990s.
His efforts were cut short in 2003 by an organised criminal organisation called the Zemun clan, and their allied special military unit the Red Berets, whose political backers have yet to be revealed.
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