Topčider deaths still unaccounted for
Three years have passed since two then Yugoslav Army (VJ) soldiers died in the Topčider military base in Belgrade.
Friday, 05.10.2007.
13:27
Three years have passed since two then Yugoslav Army (VJ) soldiers died in the Topcider military base in Belgrade. Dragan Jakovljevic and Drazen Milovanovic died on October 5, 2004 while patrolling near the Karas underground structure, an thus far circumstances of their deaths have not yet been clarified. Topcider deaths still unaccounted for The investigation conducted by a commission appointed by the military court following the incident ascertained that “Jakovljevic shot and killed Milovanovic and then committed suicide.” “I remain convinced that the military court reached the correct conclusion and that there was no third person involved in the deaths of the two soldiers”, the court's Investigative judge Vuk Tufegdzic, in charge of the investigation, said at the time. However, the findings of an independent commission, formed at the initiative of then president of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic, established the involvement of the third person who committed both murders. As the domestic judiciary failed to solve the case, it has in the meantime been forwarded to the FBI for expertise. Two days prior to the soldiers’ deaths, the army conducted an inspection at the Karas underground structure, raising suspicion that they may have been looking for the Hague fugitive Ratko Mladic, and that the soldiers lost their lives after witnessing something they were not supposed to. The security cameras were malfunctioning at the moment Milovanovic and Jakovljevic died. The inspection of the crime scene (FoNet, archive)
Topčider deaths still unaccounted for
The investigation conducted by a commission appointed by the military court following the incident ascertained that “Jakovljević shot and killed Milovanović and then committed suicide.”“I remain convinced that the military court reached the correct conclusion and that there was no third person involved in the deaths of the two soldiers”, the court's Investigative judge Vuk Tufegdžić, in charge of the investigation, said at the time.
However, the findings of an independent commission, formed at the initiative of then president of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar Marović, established the involvement of the third person who committed both murders.
As the domestic judiciary failed to solve the case, it has in the meantime been forwarded to the FBI for expertise.
Two days prior to the soldiers’ deaths, the army conducted an inspection at the Karaš underground structure, raising suspicion that they may have been looking for the Hague fugitive Ratko Mladić, and that the soldiers lost their lives after witnessing something they were not supposed to.
The security cameras were malfunctioning at the moment Milovanović and Jakovljević died.
Komentari 1
Pogledaj komentare