Investigation launched into judge's murder

Knjazevac Municipal Court President Dragisa Cvejic was murdered yesterday. The motive behind the attack and the perpetrators remain unknown. Investigation launched into judge's murder B92 understands that the police questioned a number of people yesterday over the attack on Cvejic, while the inquest in the town, that lasted several hours, was carried out by a team of officers from Belgrade. Court representatives, political officials and parties have condemned the attack. The judge passed away following surgery at the Nis Clinical Center, after receiving severe injuries to his stomach and leg. He was on his way to work at 0700 when a bomb exploded in his driveway, injuring three other passers-by. Fellow Knjazevac Judge Miodrag Radosavljevic said that he too had received threats on a number of occasions, as had the other judges in the building, while the Belgrade police were conducting a search of the Municipal Court’s premises, as well as the flats of nine other judges, to make sure of their safety. Supreme Court President Vida Petrovic-Skero and Justice Minister Dusan Petrovic condemned the murder. “We strongly condemn this attack on the judge’s life, that of every citizen, but we want to take this opportunity to draw the media’s and the authorities’ attention to the daily threats judges are exposed to, and to repeat our calls for increased security measures,” said Petrovic-Skero. “The Justice Ministry had no knowledge of an immediate threat to any other court president or prosecutor in Knjazevac. According to my information, MUP is conducting a systematic investigation, and I’m sure that we’ll know more very soon, all of us,” Petrovic assured. Criminologist Zoran Nikolic believes yesterday’s murder was the culmination of numerous threats and attacks on judges. But that those two things should be distinguished. “What we have here is a murder, the only thing that links them are the judges, and there are those that are more at risk. The question is who’ll be next, the craze of madness concerns me, the question is whether the police should have prevented it, that is, could they have—a lot more information and investigation is required to established whether somebody was at fault,” Nikolic explained.

Investigation launched into judge's murder

B92 understands that the police questioned a number of people yesterday over the attack on Cvejić, while the inquest in the town, that lasted several hours, was carried out by a team of officers from Belgrade. Court representatives, political officials and parties have condemned the attack.

The judge passed away following surgery at the Niš Clinical Center, after receiving severe injuries to his stomach and leg.

He was on his way to work at 0700 when a bomb exploded in his driveway, injuring three other passers-by.

Fellow Knjaževac Judge Miodrag Radosavljević said that he too had received threats on a number of occasions, as had the other judges in the building, while the Belgrade police were conducting a search of the Municipal Court’s premises, as well as the flats of nine other judges, to make sure of their safety.

Supreme Court President Vida Petrović-Škero and Justice Minister Dušan Petrović condemned the murder.

“We strongly condemn this attack on the judge’s life, that of every citizen, but we want to take this opportunity to draw the media’s and the authorities’ attention to the daily threats judges are exposed to, and to repeat our calls for increased security measures,” said Petrović-Škero.

“The Justice Ministry had no knowledge of an immediate threat to any other court president or prosecutor in Knjaževac. According to my information, MUP is conducting a systematic investigation, and I’m sure that we’ll know more very soon, all of us,” Petrović assured.

Criminologist Zoran Nikolić believes yesterday’s murder was the culmination of numerous threats and attacks on judges. But that those two things should be distinguished.

“What we have here is a murder, the only thing that links them are the judges, and there are those that are more at risk. The question is who’ll be next, the craze of madness concerns me, the question is whether the police should have prevented it, that is, could they have—a lot more information and investigation is required to established whether somebody was at fault,” Nikolić explained.