Commission warns about weekly's "dangerous spiral of lies"

In a press release on Tuesday signed by the Commission's president, Veran Matic, it is added that the practice commenced with the article "Curuvija welcomed bombs" in Politika Ekspres several days prior to the killing of Slavko Curuvija (in 1999).

In it, based on the lies that Curuvija requested the air raids, the journalist and publisher was marked as a shooting target and he was shot dead several days later.

This time, Goran Kozic states: "To make things clear: the deceased colleague was probably killed by the regime, but there is no evidence for this claim…", but this is immediately followed by terrible accusations without any evidence at the expense of Ljiljana Smajlovic, that it was precisely thanks to her influence on Washington Post that the bombing of Serbia lasted much longer than planned.

Not only is it a new dangerous lie, but a continuation of the lie with the statement that Ljiljana Smajlovic, after the murder of Slavko Curuvija, caused Serbia the same kind of treasonous damage as Curuvia before he was killed.

Ljiljana Smajlovic is a member and one of the initiators of the establishment of the Commission for investigating the killings of journalists, which was founded precisely because fifteen years after the murder of Curuvija, his murder was not resolved. The indictment was made on the basis of numerous pieces of evidence and the trial is taking place with numerous controversial decisions of the court, and attempts to eliminate crucial evidence, but also without the consistent presentation of evidence in full, without conducting a hearing of the main police investigator in this case.

Along with these decisions of the Trial Chamber, justification of the future possible acquittal was initiated by the...