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The First Court of First Instance of Belgrade today rejected the prosecutor’s proposal to order the custody of Miladin Kovacevic, suspected of threatening the girl TT (26), three days ago in the center of Belgrade, so that she can defend herself for freedom in the subsequent course of the procedure.
– However, the court imposed a measure that prohibited her from approaching and communicating with TT and her cousin, who witnessed the incident, court spokeswoman Bojana Stanković told Tanjug.
The prosecution has the right to appeal this decision of the investigating judge to the extrajudicial criminal panel of the court.
Kovacevic previously denied at the hearing at the First Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade that he had threatened the girl.
In her defense, she claimed that she saw T. T, but did not threaten or hurt her that night. After she described in detail how the aggrieved party behaved and what was happening, she did not want to answer the assistant prosecutor’s questions, the prosecution said earlier in the statement.
Kovacevic is charged with the criminal offenses of endangering safety and abuse and torture, because he threatened the girl, pulled her hair and broke her phone, the prosecutor’s office told Tanjug on Friday.
The girl who reported her behavior on Friday submitted a “list of violations” to the prosecution, and the prosecution announced that it would order an expert examination of those injuries.
Furthermore, in the subsequent course of criminal proceedings, the prosecution intends to examine the injured girl, as well as her cousin with whom she fled after the fight with Kovacevic.
The Prosecutor’s Office will review the videos and take all other evidentiary actions to properly establish the facts.
After that, he will make the final decision and inform the public about the further course of the procedure, it is said in the announcement.
Kovacevic has been known to the Serbian public for the case since May 2008, when he brutally beat a Boston college colleague, Brian Teinhauer, and for which he was prosecuted in Serbia after fleeing the United States.
The prosecution is preparing an appeal
The Belgrade First Basic Prosecutor’s Office announced an appeal against the court’s decision rejecting its request that the court order the custody of Miladin Kovacevic, suspected of threatening the girl TT (26), three days ago in the center of Belgrade .
The prosecution requested custody for two reasons: because of the danger that Kovacevic would influence the witnesses, and the other because of his previous conviction also for a violent crime, for which he will file an appeal before the extrajudicial criminal panel, the prosecution told Tanjug .
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