Šešelj to be questionned about PM murder

When Vojisav Seselj returns from The Hague he will be questioned about political background of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's murder, B92 has learned. B92 has learned that if the announcements come true and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader returns from The Hague, he will be interrogated about the political background of the PM's murder. Seselj to be questionned about PM murder Seselj voluntarily surrenedered to the Hague Tribunal two weeks before the assassination. He has been in the Hague Tribunal holding for eight years now. In February 2003 he announced a “bloody spring“ in Serbia and he left to The Hague immediately after the attempted assasination on Djindjic near the Limes Arena. “The scum will have to go to the bottom of a deep and muddy river where he belongs. Djindjic ran off to Frankfurt, his Bagzi (Dejan Milenkovic) ran his truck into him, so Djindjic thinks that he can intensively do business with the mafia for 12 years, to take part in all mafia actions, and now to simply write off the mafia by order of the Americans. Well, it's not going to happen! Djindjic must share the fate with his mobsters, with his members of the Surcin gang, with his Bagzi,” Seselj stated on February 17, 2003. He was suspected of cooperating with Zemun gang in 2003. He was questioned in the Hague Tribunal detention unit in August 2008. “I was in the loop, I knew that a very bloody clash was being prepared, I didn’t know that Djindjic was going to be murdered, but I did know that there would be blood up to our knees,” he said then. He was known to had been well-informed and he had called his source Laufer. Witness associate Dejan Milenkovic revealed during his testimony before the Special Court for Organized Crime in Belgrade that Laufer was actually Zemun gang head Dusan Spasojevic. The SRS denied the allegations at the time. The request for the investigation against Seselj said that he had had several meetings with Spasojevic and Milorad Ulemek, that they had financed his party and that he had asked them several times to kill the prime minister and that he had repeated this just before he left for The Hague. The proceeding against the SRS leader in connection with Djindjic's murder could not have gone past the investigation in 2003 since he was protected by the law on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. According to the law, the proceedings before the domestic court needed to be stopped until the proceeding before the Hague Tribunal was finished. Vojislav Seselj (FoNet, file)

Šešelj to be questionned about PM murder

Šešelj voluntarily surrenedered to the Hague Tribunal two weeks before the assassination. He has been in the Hague Tribunal holding for eight years now.

In February 2003 he announced a “bloody spring“ in Serbia and he left to The Hague immediately after the attempted assasination on Đinđić near the Limes Arena.

“The scum will have to go to the bottom of a deep and muddy river where he belongs. Đinđić ran off to Frankfurt, his Bagzi (Dejan Milenković) ran his truck into him, so Đinđić thinks that he can intensively do business with the mafia for 12 years, to take part in all mafia actions, and now to simply write off the mafia by order of the Americans. Well, it's not going to happen! Đinđić must share the fate with his mobsters, with his members of the Surčin gang, with his Bagzi,” Šešelj stated on February 17, 2003.

He was suspected of cooperating with Zemun gang in 2003. He was questioned in the Hague Tribunal detention unit in August 2008.

“I was in the loop, I knew that a very bloody clash was being prepared, I didn’t know that Đinđić was going to be murdered, but I did know that there would be blood up to our knees,” he said then.

He was known to had been well-informed and he had called his source Laufer.

Witness associate Dejan Milenković revealed during his testimony before the Special Court for Organized Crime in Belgrade that Laufer was actually Zemun gang head Dušan Spasojević.

The SRS denied the allegations at the time.

The request for the investigation against Šešelj said that he had had several meetings with Spasojević and Milorad Ulemek, that they had financed his party and that he had asked them several times to kill the prime minister and that he had repeated this just before he left for The Hague.

The proceeding against the SRS leader in connection with Đinđić's murder could not have gone past the investigation in 2003 since he was protected by the law on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. According to the law, the proceedings before the domestic court needed to be stopped until the proceeding before the Hague Tribunal was finished.