"Key evidence in Curuvija murder case barely accepted"

If closing arguments begin during the continuation of the trial for the murder of Slavko Curuvija, the Deputy Prosecutor will have the opportunity to highlight some of the most important evidence.

According to Cenzolovka, the court has barely accepted this evidence and states that these are data from mobile telephone base stations that say that Ratko Romic and Miroslav Kurak were near the crime scene, that they intensively communicated with Milan Radonjic, and that its quotes a duty officer's diary, who says that Radonjic also announced "other measures."

After several announcements and postponements from September to the present, and almost seven months of fierce debate over several strange decisions of the court, it is possible that the closing arguments in the trial for the murder the journalist Slavko Curuvija finally begin during tomorrow's (Thursday's) continuation of the three-year process.

In April, the defense of the accused and three-member trial chamber (President Snezana Jovanovic, Vladimir Mesarovic and Dragan Milosevic) tried to exclude from the evidence the most important evidence in this case.

It firstly concerns the part of the tapes that carry data from the base stations of mobile telephony from the center of Belgrade, which show the location of the accused, and with whom they had communicated with before, on the day of the murder, and after the murder of Curuvija on April 11, 1999.

The testimony of Dragan Kecman was also controversial. Kecman is a policeman who investigated Curuvija's murder since the first day, collected key evidence and after almost 16 years of investigationwrote a criminal complaint against the accused, until in November, after a sudden turn, the trial panel did not allow...

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