Kosovo Serb transferred to Priština prison

Kosovo Serb war crimes suspect Momčilo Jovanović has been taken to Priština’s central prison.

Izvor: Beta

Thursday, 20.03.2008.

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Kosovo Serb war crimes suspect Momcilo Jovanovic has been taken to Pristina’s central prison. He has been taken into custody, regardless of the fact that an international judge decision in Pec handed down three days ago had granted him house arrest. Kosovo Serb transferred to Pristina prison His attorney Ljubomir Pantovic told the Beta news agency yesterday that international judge Lolita Dumlao assigned Jovanovic to house arrest and rejected the demand of the international prosecution for Jovanovic to be remanded into custody for 30 days. Jovanovic was taken to the Pristina municipal prison, despite the fact that he did not violate his house arrest, nor were there any changes in decisions made by the court, his lawyer said. Pantovic confirmed that prosecutor Marie Barnier stated in her request for keeping him in prison that Jovanovic leaving custody "would cause many problems of which she had informed the UN Kosovo mission chief’s office". Momcilo Jovanovic, who fled Kosovo in 1999 to live in Arandjelovac, was visiting a graveyard in the village of Vitomirica, near Pec, on March 12, together with 15 other Serbs in a trip organized by the Danish Refugee Council, when he was arrested after local Albanians said they recognized him as a man "responsible for war crimes committed in 1999". Pantovic said that the best indication of the validity of the charges is the fact that the international judge refused to remand his client into custody, despite the request from the international prosecution.

Kosovo Serb transferred to Priština prison

His attorney Ljubomir Pantović told the Beta news agency yesterday that international judge Lolita Dumlao assigned Jovanović to house arrest and rejected the demand of the international prosecution for Jovanović to be remanded into custody for 30 days.

Jovanović was taken to the Priština municipal prison, despite the fact that he did not violate his house arrest, nor were there any changes in decisions made by the court, his lawyer said.

Pantović confirmed that prosecutor Marie Barnier stated in her request for keeping him in prison that Jovanović leaving custody "would cause many problems of which she had informed the UN Kosovo mission chief’s office".

Momčilo Jovanović, who fled Kosovo in 1999 to live in Aranđelovac, was visiting a graveyard in the village of Vitomirica, near Peć, on March 12, together with 15 other Serbs in a trip organized by the Danish Refugee Council, when he was arrested after local Albanians said they recognized him as a man "responsible for war crimes committed in 1999".

Pantović said that the best indication of the validity of the charges is the fact that the international judge refused to remand his client into custody, despite the request from the international prosecution.

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