"Court shows intent to relase Curuvija murder suspects"

Veran Matic says he has the impression that the Trial Chamber wants to release those accused of the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

The president of the Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists told Cenzolovka that he had a strong impression the trial chamber has led the process as if he did not want to do it, or was forced in advance to pass an acquittal decision.

The latest NIN, in a text by Vuk Cvijic, presents several new details that indicate the investigation and the three-year trial for the murder of journalists and owner of Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin Slavko uruvija is burdened by pressures, obstructions, attempts to discredit the witnesses. The fact is shocking that some intercepted conversations indicated that the murder of Dragan Kecman was also planned, an inspector who came to the key evidence in this case. Kecman, who experienced the fate of some who helped shed light on the murder of Curuvija - was in 2016, without a clear explanation, removed from the position of the head of the Directorate for Fight Against Organized Crime (UBPOK).

In the said text, NIN writes:

"In February 2006, in the Belgrade club Varadero in Makis, Crni and Kurak, who is now on the run, met with witness Slavisa Arsic, who immediately prior testified in connection with the murder of Curuvija to police inspector Dragan Kecman. Kurak then concluded: 'Kecman needs to be cooled off'."

In the recent testimony of Kecman before the trial chamber that is leading the trial against the four accused for the murder of Curuvija, during which a lengthy and unpleasant debate took place, even between members of the panel with this inspector (who was called only to speak about taking this evidence, although he may be the best connoisseur of this case), he said, among other things, that even a man who helped the police collect information from Mobtel (later Telenor) about...

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