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Before the trial for setting fire to the house of journalist Milan Jovanovic, which continues on Monday, October 5, the UNS received confirmation from the Second First Instance Court of Belgrade that the court gave its consent to issue an international arrest warrant against Aleksandar Marinkovic , accused of being a direct attacker of the journalist’s house.
Journalist Milan Jovanović Photo: Beta / Miloš MiškovThe Second Fundamental Court’s response to the UNS states that on February 13 of this year, that court gave its consent to the Search Department to issue an international arrest warrant against Marinković. The same consent was granted by the Ministry of Justice, it is said in the response.
What the Interior Ministry did and what information was obtained in the search for Marinkovic, the UNS did not respond to the publication of the text. In Second Base, the court states that such information is the exclusive competence of the police.
In the trial for setting fire to the house of journalist “Zig Info” Jovanovic, Judge Slavko Zugic issued a decision ordering custody of the defendant Aleksandar Marinkovic, who did not appear at the hearing in December last year, and issued an arrest warrant. That decision, according to the court’s response to UNS, became final on January 17, 2020.
In August this year, Judge Žugić made the decision to try Marinković in absentia with the other defendants, the former Mayor of Grocka Dragoljub Simonović, Vladimir Mihailović and Igor Novaković.
At the hearing in the presence of the prosecutor, immediately after the house of journalist Jovanović caught fire in December 2018, the defendant Marinković himself admitted to setting a fire in order for the “local greengrocer” Igor Novaković to pay off his debt.
He did not know who lived in the house, or that it was a journalist and a former policeman, according to the minutes of Marinkovic’s interrogation. Novakovic’s offer was to “set fire to an A-class Mercedes in a garage at Grobljanska 21 in Vrcin.”
The next hearings for the fire in the journalist’s house are scheduled for October 5 and 6 at the Second First Instance Court of Belgrade (Palace of Justice building). Milan Jovanović and his wife Jela Deljanin were further traumatized in previous trials and were not provided with any mechanism to protect the victims.
At the trials, defense attorneys questioned the journalist and his wife, and also lowered the value of their belongings that were burned in the fire. Simonović’s lawyer even accused Jovanović of having shot Marinković on the fateful night when his unconscious wife dragged her out of the burning house.
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