Djindjic murder of Serbian-Croatian border
on the Serbian-Croatian borderVolatile Djindjic murder in focus
[Caption: Immediately after the murder of Zoran Djindjic 12th March 2003 security forces take the prime minister to a vehicle.
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The illegal border crossing from Croatia to Serbia, the police has gone a fugitive murderer of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in the net. The sentenced to 40 years in prison Milos Simovic had been placed in a maximum security prison in eastern Serbia, said a spokeswoman with the Ministry of Justice in Belgrade.
Gunfight with an accomplice, the 30-year-old was in the morning in a coordinated use of security forces of both countries were taken. Simovic said to have delivered on Tuesday in the Croatian capital Zagreb a gunfight with his accomplice also volatile Sretko Kalinic, when this was seriously injured. Both men had been for their involvement in the assassination of Djindjic in March 2003 sentenced in absentia. The Serbian authorities announced their intention to submit an extradition request for Kalinic.
[Caption: Zoran Djindjic was the first democratically elected prime minister of Serbia. ]
Zoran Djindjic, who was shot in front of the seat of the government in Belgrade by a sniper, was the first democratically elected prime minister of his country. The reformers led Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, sentenced up closer to the West.
Twelve Djindjic assassin already
end of last year, the Supreme Court of Serbia, the judgments against two other bombers, Milorad ' Legija "Ulemek and Zvezdan Jovanovic confirmed. They are considered as main responsible of the attack: Ulemek as wire-pullers, Jovanovic as a marksman. Both were sentenced to 40 years in prison. Twelve people were convicted of the murder of the leaders to prison terms.
Ulemek was a member of the "Tiger" militia, led by the notorious militia leaders "Arkan", during the Balkan wars, committed numerous crimes. He later led the police special unit "Red Berets", which was developed under the leadership of former Yugoslav President Milosevic.
