Three Serbs convicted for 2008 violence
The international chamber of the Kosovska Mitrovica court sentenced to prison three out of the six Serbs accused of taking part in the violence in March 2008 in Kosovska Mitrovica.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Thursday, March 28, 2013
Marjan Ilincic, 63, was sentenced to 20 months, Dragan Milojevic, 27, to 18 months and Zoran Cavic, 47, to 9 months and a year on parole, while the remining three were acquitted. Miodrag Ralic, 54, Nebojsa Jovic, 48, and Avni Krasnici, 39, were released.
Those found guilty will have to pay the trial cost as well, EUR 500. Their defence teams said they would appeal the verdicts. The six were accused of more than 20 crimes.
They were accused of illegally occupying the court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, calling for resistance, preventing officers from performing their duty, participating in a group that committed crimes and endangering UN and associate staff, as well as causing damage to movable property, inciting national, racial, religious and ethnic hatred. In the incidents that followed, a Ukrainian police officer was killed, while 64 UNMIK and 24 KFOR troops and about a hundred Serb protesters were injured.
The chamber did not have to decide regarding the Ukrainian police officer's murder and concentrated on the crimes the six were accused of, the presiding judge stated.
The Serbs who blocked the entrance to the court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday morning have dispersed.
