Đinđić trial: Defense delivers closing arguments

The second-accused Zvezdan Jovanović’s defense lawyer will deliver his closing argument today.

Izvor: B92

Wednesday, 25.04.2007.

11:03

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Đinđić trial: Defense delivers closing arguments

The Đinđić family attorney Rajko Danilović said that the indictment was substantiated and proven in its entirety, stressing that “the background and motives of the assassination are still unaccounted for.”

“The investigation into the political background of the case was conducted rather timidly,” Danilović said, wondering “who was actually encouraging and supporting the defendants during the trial, and who gave them false hope that they would be freed at the end.”

He added that Ulemek's decision to surrender when he was “welcomed by the state officials in the MUP headquarters" has not yet been clarified.

The Đinđić family attorney called for maximum penalties for all the accused, adding that a maximum sentence was appropriate given the lack of any mitigating circumstances.

Đinđić family lawyer Srđa Popović also said that, in his opinion, “the indictment has been proven.”

He maintained that the accused made a “desperate defense” by claiming that they were "framed in a well-designed conspiracy.”

“The guilt of the defendants in this particular trial is insignificant, given that they only followed the instructions they had been given. Maybe in some new trial we will manage to reveal the genuine organizers and initiators of the assassination,” he said.

Popović said that the State Security Agency (UDBA) persecuted Đinđić all his life.

“Zoran became my client 39 years ago. I was his attorney on several occasions and I am very well aware of the fact that the State Security Agency that was after him all that time finally killed him,” he explained.

Ulemek’s defense lawyer Slobodan Milivojević said that the trial would not provide answers as to who in effect murdered the prime minister, deeming the case “Kennedy-like.” He called for an acquittal.

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