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Article: Alleged Serb assassin's confession heard Said he killed prime minister to stop war crimes extraditions
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- December 26, 2003
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- The alleged assassin of Serb Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic told police days after the slaying that he
killed the reformist leader to stop the extradition of Serbs to the
U.N. war crimes tribunal, according to a confession read out Thursday
at his trial.
Zvezdan Jovanovic, a former commander of an elite police unit, is
charged with firing the fatal shots that killed Djindjic on March 12
as he stepped out of his car in front of the government headquarters
in central Belgrade.
"I personally killed Zoran Djindjic," Jovanovic reportedly said
during an interrogation after his arrest in late March.
Jovanovic's confession was read by the presiding judge, Marko ...