A court hearing into the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija was opened

The main trial was opened in the proceedings against four former employees of the State Security Agency who were sentenced by the first-instance verdict to a total of 100 years in prison for participating in the murder of journalist and owner of "Dnevni Telegraf" Slavko uruvija in 1999.
The injured Branka Prpa, who was with uruvija during the murder, repeated today that Miroslav Kurak did not shoot uruvija. She said that she did not recognize Miroslav Kurak or Ratko Romi as the perpetrators of the murder.
Prpa repeated that she then felt a blow to the head, fell and then saw a pale man with black eyes approaching and shooting uruvija in the head. As she pointed out after the murder, the perpetrator was standing over her and, as she concluded, was thinking about whether he was going to kill her too.
She gave a detailed description of the killer to the police, and in December 2000 she saw a death certificate in the newspaper of a man who resembled the killer, but today she did not want to repeat his name. According to Prpa, uruvija's murder was preceded by permanent persecution and pressure.
Convicted Radomir Markovi maintained his defense statement from the trial, adding that during the proceedings there were almost 100 witnesses, of which only Branka Prpa had direct knowledge of the murder, because she was a witness, while all the other witnesses, as he said, had knowledge from the newspaper or heard from someone.
Markovi pointed out that Prpa stated in her testimony that the convicted Miroslav Kurak did not kill uruvija, which, as the prosecution claims, repeatedly tried to discredit her statement.
Speaking about the witnesses, Markovi said that Milorad Ulemek Legija was declared as a witness, and he himself said at the trial,...