41 pct of citizens want Seselj's voluntary return to ICTY

BELGRADE - Most Serbian citizens - 41 percent - believe that it is best that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj return to detention in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) voluntarily, show the results of a survey conducted by the Faktor Plus agency.

According to the survey, 22 percent of citizens believe that the authorities should extradite Seselj at the ICTY's request, while 17 percent believe that he should remain in Serbia as a free citizen.

Five percent of the participants said that Seselj should be arrested and tried in Serbia, while 15 percent responded with "I do not know."

The telephone survey was conducted between March 30 and April 3 on a sample of 1150 people.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who spent 11.5 years in the Scheveningen prison without a verdict, was granted temporary release on November 12, 2014.

The Trial Chamber made the decision for humanitarian reasons, a year after Seselj had undergone a cancer operation.

However, the ICTY Appeals Chamber scrapped the decision on March 30 at the request of the Office of the Prosecutor and ordered the Trial Chamber to request Seselj's urgent return to detention.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic (illustration, archive)