Guardsmen's deaths still mystery
The circumstances of the deaths of Dragan Jakovljević and Dražen Milovanović remain unclear four years on, and after two investigations.
Sunday, 05.10.2008.
14:36
The circumstances of the deaths of Dragan Jakovljevic and Drazen Milovanovic remain unclear four years on, and after two investigations. The two members of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) Guards were killed on Oct. 5, 2004 at the secret military structure known as Karas, a part of the Topcider Barracks grounds in Belgrade. Guardsmen's deaths still mystery The murders which at the time grabbed the headlines in Serbia, remain unexplained, even though two commissions – one appointed by the army and an independent one – investigated the case. The U.S. FBI conducted its own forensic investigation, but all the results have been inconclusive. Now, an investigative judge has asked for a new, "judicial-medical expert report" from the U.S. specialists. The reports the two domestic commissions submitted had findings that were completely opposed, with the army claiming that the soldiers died in a murder-suicide shooting with no one else involved, while the independent commission dismissed this scenario as impossible, and blamed another person or persons for the killings. Formally, the case is now in the pre-criminal investigation phase, Belgrade District Court spokeswoman Ivana Ramic explained for B92 today. "At this point, the case is in the United States for judicial-medical expert analysis, on the orders of the District Court investigative judge," she added, but could not specify any deadline for the report to be submitted. Vladan Batic, a former justice minister and the lawyer representing one of the soldiers' families, says that the judge's decision to demand a new report came after a prosecution request, and that the families unsuccessfully fought against it. "After the FBI's ballistic report, a new one is completely superfluous, as [the FBI report] rules out the possibility that either of the two Guardsmen committed suicide," Batic says. At the time of the deaths of Jakovljevic and Milovanovic, the media speculated that they were killed by the Hague indictees' security personnel, or that they were witnesses to criminal activities taking place within the military. The families at the site of the murders (Tanjug)
Guardsmen's deaths still mystery
The murders which at the time grabbed the headlines in Serbia, remain unexplained, even though two commissions – one appointed by the army and an independent one – investigated the case.The U.S. FBI conducted its own forensic investigation, but all the results have been inconclusive.
Now, an investigative judge has asked for a new, "judicial-medical expert report" from the U.S. specialists.
The reports the two domestic commissions submitted had findings that were completely opposed, with the army claiming that the soldiers died in a murder-suicide shooting with no one else involved, while the independent commission dismissed this scenario as impossible, and blamed another person or persons for the killings.
Formally, the case is now in the pre-criminal investigation phase, Belgrade District Court spokeswoman Ivana Ramić explained for B92 today.
"At this point, the case is in the United States for judicial-medical expert analysis, on the orders of the District Court investigative judge," she added, but could not specify any deadline for the report to be submitted.
Vladan Batić, a former justice minister and the lawyer representing one of the soldiers' families, says that the judge's decision to demand a new report came after a prosecution request, and that the families unsuccessfully fought against it.
"After the FBI's ballistic report, a new one is completely superfluous, as [the FBI report] rules out the possibility that either of the two Guardsmen committed suicide," Batić says.
At the time of the deaths of Jakovljević and Milovanović, the media speculated that they were killed by the Hague indictees' security personnel, or that they were witnesses to criminal activities taking place within the military.
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