Person: Simatovic Franko Archives

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 commanding units deployed to Bosnia or Croatia.

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. At the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, Simatovic’s lawyer denied that his client commanded the ‘Pauk’ (‘Spider’) operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995, as a prosecution witness has claimed.

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 1994 and 1995. At the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, Stanisic’s lawyer claimed that Red Berets ex-fighter Dejan Sliskovic “made up” testimony allegedly incriminating the defendants.

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 police in 1995. Defence lawyers at the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s paramilitaries were part of the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry in 1995, and were not controlled by the Serbian State Security Service.

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 in 1995. A protected prosecution witness codenamed RFJ-120 told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that he saw Serbian paramilitary chief Arkan kill a man out of revenge.

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 Bosnia in 1995. A protected prosecution witness told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that he managed to survive the shooting by members of Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s paramilitary unit in Sanski Most in Bosnia in 1995 despite having been hit in the back and chin.

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 not credible.

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 service.

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 in the Bosnian and Croatian wars.

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 parts of Bosnia and Croatia.

Person: Simatovic Franko

Serbian Security Chiefs Begin Defence at Hague Trial

Serbian Security Official ‘Didn’t Command Bosnia Operation’

Serbian Red Berets Fighter Accused of Lying to Court

Serbian Security Officials: Bosnian Serbs Controlled Arkan

Serbian Paramilitary Arkan ‘Shot Captive in Head’

Witness Recalls Surviving Shooting by Arkan’s Paramilitaries

Serbian Ex-Official Accuses Journalist of Biased Testimony

Yugoslav Army Ran Paramilitaries, Claims Serbian Ex-Official

Serbian Security Chief Challenges Journalist’s War Testimony

Belgrade Security Chiefs ‘Implemented Milosevic’s Greater Serbia Plan’

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