Friday, 3 october 2025.
Serbian Security Chiefs Begin Defence at Hague Trial
In the defence’s opening statement at the retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, Stanisic’s lawyer told the court his client was not involved in...
Serbian Security Official ‘Didn’t Command Bosnia Operation’
Former Serbian deputy security chief Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that his client did not command an operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995....
Serbian Red Berets Fighter Accused of Lying to Court
Former Serbian security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence lawyer told the UN court that an ex-member of the Red Berets unit lied about the defendant commanding an operation in Bosnia in...
Serbian Security Officials: Bosnian Serbs Controlled Arkan
Defence lawyers for former Serbian security service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told the Hague court that notorious paramilitary leader Arkan’s fighters operated as part of the Bosnian Serb...
Serbian Paramilitary Arkan ‘Shot Captive in Head’
A witness told the trial of former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that he saw Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, shoot a captive dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Witness Recalls Surviving Shooting by Arkan’s Paramilitaries
A witness told the Hague retrial of former Serbian security service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic how he survived a shooting by paramilitaries led by Serbian warlord Arkan in...
Serbian Ex-Official Accuses Journalist of Biased Testimony
Former Serbian security service official Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court that a journalist who testified that the service controlled Serbian paramilitaries in the Croatian and Bosnian wars was...
Yugoslav Army Ran Paramilitaries, Claims Serbian Ex-Official
Former Serbian security service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the UN court that Serbian paramilitary units operating in wartime Croatia were controlled by the Yugoslav People’s Army, not Belgrade’s security...
Serbian Security Chief Challenges Journalist’s War Testimony
Former Serbian security service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence denied journalist Dejan Anastasijevic’s claim at the UN court that the Red Berets unit and Arkan’s paramilitaries were used by the service...
Belgrade Security Chiefs ‘Implemented Milosevic’s Greater Serbia Plan’
Journalist Dejan Anastasijevic told the trial of former Serbian state security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the units they controlled fought to implement Slobodan Milosevic’s plan to seize...