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00:00:21Good evening, you are watching N1 daily, I am Maja Žeželj, this is the news
00:00:25of the day.
00:00:28Student movement. started a cycling action
00:00:32constitutional guardians, on their tours they carry the Constitution of Serbia
00:00:36and present it to the citizens.
00:00:40And wherever you go, this constitution should remind
00:00:43you of one simple thing. The state
00:00:47is no one's private
00:00:49property.
00:00:53And these are the other news topics in
00:00:55the daily.
00:00:59SNS. installation in a black
00:01:02container launched its election campaign by
00:01:05targeting student protests in Serbia.
00:01:09Blockaders are like a black box. I would say that in the coming
00:01:12period we will encounter a large number of such
00:01:14morbidities.
00:01:18Reactions to the verdict OveK4 sentenced and
00:01:21first-instance yesterday in The Hague. In Pristina
00:01:24a new protest, a new stoning of the government
00:01:27building.
00:01:31Confirmed for N1, the former
00:01:34head of the Belgrade police Veselin Milić will be tried
00:01:37before the First Basic Court in
00:01:39Belgrade.
00:01:41I don't think that's surprising even for those who conducted the investigation
00:01:45against him.
00:01:48Tomorrow sunny and warm, in the afternoon
00:01:51cloudiness, possible showers and
00:01:54thunder.
00:02:03Students are again on bicycles, carrying
00:02:06the constitution from Belgrade, through Subotica, Novi Sad,
00:02:10Užice, Kraljevo to Vranje and Kragujevac. In 10
00:02:14days they will visit 19 cities.
00:02:17This pre-election cycling tour has two branches,
00:02:21one goes north, and the other south of the country,
00:02:25at the end they will meet on September 26
00:02:28in Kragujevac. They started this morning from Belgrade's Republic Square.
00:02:31republike.
00:02:34It may sound unusual to send such a book on a
00:02:37journey from city to city, by bicycle. But
00:02:41the Constitution was never meant to be a book that
00:02:44sits on a shelf. It exists for people
00:02:48and wherever you go, this
00:02:51constitution should remind you of one simple
00:02:54thing. The state is no one's private
00:02:58property. Its all institutions belong to all
00:03:02citizens, and the rights written in this
00:03:05constitution belong
00:03:08Kragujevac, then the to each of us. Have a good journey constitutional guardians and remember, students
00:03:11win,
00:03:16students, students, students.
00:03:32"The group heading north arrived in Vršac, our
00:03:35Ina Džakula is there, and here
00:03:38we saw the students arrived in Vršac, how was their
00:03:41arrival?
00:03:45With applause, ovations and shouts, pump and students
00:03:49win, the cyclists, that is, students and
00:03:52citizens who set off on this bike tour which
00:03:56lasts, as you said yourself, 10 days, actually arrived
00:03:59..." "they arrived on this first day
00:04:01"it remained a dead letter on in Vršac, every branch of the intersection near
00:04:04Jovan Sterija Popović elementary school here in Vršac was
00:04:08filled with people, and I suggest in the next few seconds you also watch and
00:04:12listen to how the atmosphere was during the
00:04:15welcome.
00:04:18Students win, students
00:04:21win.
00:05:03That's how it looked, so about 40 minutes ago
00:05:07when the cyclists arrived here in Vršac, they covered about
00:05:1180 km. and they will therefore
00:05:14spend the night here, what are the impressions from today, that is
00:05:17a question for my interlocutor, with me is Vladimir Ristić, also a
00:05:20candidate of the student list, first of all, good day and thank you for speaking to
00:05:24N1 television. The first question is certainly what are your
00:05:27impressions, how was today's day? Well, today's
00:05:31day was beautiful in every sense, the whole tour
00:05:34that started from Belgrade who was
00:05:38it, beautiful energy, all
00:05:42the time we were. went on the wings of this youth, it's
00:05:45something that spreads like that flame of freedom that they
00:05:49lit up, which is something
00:05:52incredible experience and what is for
00:05:55me personally the greatest experience in every place where we were
00:05:59welcomed, we were welcomed with ovations, we were welcomed
00:06:02with joy, often tears, considering that
00:06:06we were going along a very frequent traffic
00:06:09route from Pančevo to Vršac, there was no... car
00:06:13that didn't greet us by waving, that's something that for me
00:06:16is better than any analysis of the current situation
00:06:19about this idea that we
00:06:23are spreading through Serbia. Did you have the opportunity to talk
00:06:27to the citizens and will you organize any other, let's say,
00:06:30activities where citizens can get in touch with those
00:06:34on the student list? Of course, I
00:06:37was in Banatski Karlovac last night
00:06:40uh yesterday in...
00:06:42"in Deliblato municipality Kovin, here I am today in Vršac, all the time
00:06:46we talk to people, in those places I was part of
00:06:49the team that presented the student
00:06:52plan, we talk to citizens, we inform
00:06:55them about the plans that are in
00:06:59the document that should bring them
00:07:02closer to the possibility of electing a student list
00:07:06and there are
00:07:09really good reactions and very positive experiences that we have..." from
00:07:12the field, thank you very much for all the information and for speaking to
00:07:16N1 television, you heard Vladimir Ristić, otherwise
00:07:20a candidate of the student list, students
00:07:22win, this, let's say, tour ended today,
00:07:26but it continues tomorrow, all cyclists, and those who wanted
00:07:30to join them, can do so tomorrow, because
00:07:33this tour from Vršac tomorrow goes to Zrenjanin
00:07:37that will be their second point on this bike
00:07:41tour. Thanks Tina, you saw how it was
00:07:44in Vršac tonight and heard our Ina
00:07:47Džakula, and the other branch of the cycling tour
00:07:50is approaching Valjevo, with them is Radovan
00:07:53Serlatlić from Nova television,
00:07:56Radovan, have you arrived in Valjevo?
00:08:00Yes, Majo, this is the entrance to Valjevo, it's a bit of a detour so that these
00:08:03streets around the city center uh
00:08:06are bypassed so that people can say hello, you hear sirens
00:08:09and you hear people, we arrived according to plan. maybe 20
00:08:13minutes later just here at the beginning
00:08:16of the daily, this was a nice easy
00:08:20day
00:08:25because,
00:08:30because the column is led by experienced guys with
00:08:33tour experience to Strasbourg, they are, as they say here, the main
00:08:37stewards and leaders of this
00:08:40column, there were about
00:08:42five or six hours of active riding and passing through several places
00:08:46like Ub and Obrenovac where there were stops for breaks with
00:08:50meals and people who were waiting, my
00:08:53estimate is that it will wind through Valjevo a little longer, in order to reach
00:08:57the central city square, I think it's a matter of
00:09:00minutes,
00:09:04thank you Radovan, you see that this other branch of the bike tour
00:09:08is slowly arriving in Valjevo, the first one has already arrived in Vršac, we
00:09:11will of course continue to follow
00:09:14it,
00:09:17as part of the pre-election campaign, the Serbian Progressive
00:09:20Party has installed a prefabricated container in the center
00:09:24of Kragujevac, that is, a black box called
00:09:27Blockader Serbia. The exhibition in
00:09:31the box was opened by Milenko Jovanov, a candidate on the
00:09:34SNS list. He says that the exhibition represents a reminder of,
00:09:38as he said, blockader violence during the past year and a half.
00:09:42With this exhibition, students are presented as
00:09:45perpetrators enemies,
00:09:47however, police brutality during the protests was not mentioned.
00:09:51protesta.
00:09:54The black box arrived in Kragujevac without announcement, assembled overnight
00:09:58in the square in the city center, in it a unique exhibition,
00:10:02stones, wooden slats, eggshells, as well as
00:10:05video recordings on LED screens showing violence at protests in Serbia,
00:10:09from the perspective of government representatives. Blockaders are like a black
00:10:12box, nobody knows what's inside, and when
00:10:15it opens, violence pops out,
00:10:18violence is shown, chaos is shown, blockades are shown, everyone who enters
00:10:22that black box, let them see for themselves. let them
00:10:26conclude for themselves what the blockaders were offering, so
00:10:29when you don't have a plan, when you don't have a program, you
00:10:33offer what's in the Black Box, that's
00:10:35violence. The exhibition in the Black Box, together with Jovanov and
00:10:39local SNS officials, was visited today by gathered
00:10:42supporters of this party, but they did not want to comment
00:10:46for N1. What do you think about this installation,
00:10:50you find someone competent, let's say so, good, but you as citizens, maybe you
00:10:53came to visit now. Well, we brought it too, you don't have us, okay,
00:10:57thank you very much, and the citizens of Kragujevac whom we found today
00:11:01nearby were not really interested in this
00:11:03exhibition, you mean Vučić's
00:11:06container, no way I have work, and I don't
00:11:10understand this, a classic provocation, let them
00:11:13see whoever is interested, let them go, let them watch, I'm not interested, I'm not
00:11:17going, presented as part of the campaign, the exhibition
00:11:20actually aims to present students as enemies, says
00:11:24Professor Nikola Vujčić from Kragujevac, a candidate on the student
00:11:27list, I would say that in the coming period we will encounter a large
00:11:31number of such morbidities, which should not
00:11:34attract the attention of our citizens, that is, as I said, some of their
00:11:38last attempts to change something, to
00:11:42do something, but I think it is completely
00:11:45useless and without any goal, because it is clear
00:11:49that students win, the black box which is guarded by private
00:11:52security and police, will be at this location
00:11:55for the next seven days. N1 sent an email to the city administration
00:11:59and the relevant inspection with a question about whether and for what period
00:12:02a permit was issued for the occupation of another area in the city, bearing
00:12:06in mind that a container of the Serbian Progressive Party has been standing
00:12:10in another location for a month, in the middle of the sidewalk on Kraljice
00:12:13Marije Boulevard. We did not receive an answer, just like the residents of the nearby
00:12:17building who filed a complaint with the authorities for the usurpation
00:12:21of space. Nataša Lazarević, N1, Kragujevac.
00:12:26And the continuation of the daily the continuation of the Nestorović
00:12:29case.
00:12:33After appearing in public, the president of the We, the Strength
00:12:36of the People movement, Branimir Nestorović publicly stated
00:12:40that he received a green light from the Russians to go to the elections with
00:12:44whomever
00:12:45he wants.
00:12:48Before that about the opposition that goes to the elections and
00:12:52the reactions of the President of Serbia.
00:12:55The European Serbia coalition is not giving up on going to the elections,
00:12:59it continues to collect signatures of support for its list.
00:13:02The leader of the Serbia Center party, Zdravko Ponoš, claims that giving up on
00:13:06going to the elections in the name of a referendum atmosphere
00:13:10makes no sense, because there is no referendum
00:13:13atmosphere. If the question of a referendum atmosphere is raised, why is there
00:13:17one or isn't there, are we destroying it or not destroying it? The referendum
00:13:20atmosphere died at birth. We gave it
00:13:23a year of commemoration, meaning the moment when you don't see that there's a referendum
00:13:27atmosphere, well, unfortunately, in the sense that we have one
00:13:31opposition political actor, that would be a referendum atmosphere, meaning
00:13:34an attempt to create a referendum, this is now campaigning
00:13:38for monism that some people are doing, I was never for monism, nor
00:13:41am I now, I am for us to get rid of this government and preserve
00:13:45the multi-party system in Serbia.
00:13:48Aleksandar Vučić says that many people have risen in his eyes
00:13:52with their decision to go to
00:13:55the elections, he told Informer that he is happy to see
00:13:59that there are opposition parties that have some
00:14:02courage, some personal dignity and will not allow
00:14:06some people to forbid them from running. Vučić
00:14:09accused the student movement of pressuring all political
00:14:12parties not to participate in the snap parliamentary
00:14:16elections.
00:14:19After confirming that he had not disappeared, Branimir
00:14:22Nestorović publicly stated that... that he received
00:14:26a green light at the Russian embassy to go to the elections
00:14:29with whomever he wants, and while former
00:14:32diplomats consider it a diplomatic scandal,
00:14:36the authorities in Serbia are silent, and the
00:14:39Russian embassy itself is silent, they did not answer
00:14:43N1's question whether Nestorović's claims are true and whether
00:14:46they violated diplomatic rules and interfered in the elections in
00:14:50Serbia?
00:14:53The search for him did not last long.
00:14:55"After he appeared and revealed that he had not mysteriously
00:14:58disappeared, Branimir Nestorović said that he was in
00:15:01Moscow, besides saying that he was received at a high level,
00:15:05it was there that he decided that his movement would participate in the elections.
00:15:08We are now starting the campaign, we will start
00:15:12with a
00:15:15safari, right?
00:15:18Since he went to Russia as the president of a movement that is
00:15:21a strategic partner of the Russian Federation, there he..."
00:15:25Sturović received a request in Serbia before the elections to gather
00:15:28all Russophiles and I received confirmation from the Russian
00:15:32embassy that I absolutely
00:15:36have the right to dispose of anything,
00:15:39including, even Vulin, he even gave up
00:15:42in the meantime. The fact that Russia decided how
00:15:46Nestorović's movement will go to the elections is at least
00:15:50a diplomatic scandal, according to former diplomat Srećko
00:15:53Đukić. Such a thing does
00:15:56not happen in
00:15:59Lukashenka's Belarus,
00:16:01there is no such politician,
00:16:04of any format,
00:16:07who from Belarus can go to the Russian
00:16:11embassy or to Russia
00:16:13to negotiate
00:16:16a political bloc, a pro-Russian political bloc that would
00:16:20appear in parliamentary or some
00:16:23other elections in Belarus.
00:16:25Foreign policy commentator Boško Jakšić says that it is a scandal
00:16:29that the Serbian authorities are silent on Russia's open interference
00:16:32in the electoral process in Serbia. He also reminds that
00:16:36President Aleksandar Vučić personally said many times that he would not
00:16:39allow foreign embassies to form a government in
00:16:42Serbia. This is undoubtedly a direct
00:16:45confirmation of unacceptable, audacious
00:16:49diplomats would probably say
00:16:52flagrant interference in the affairs
00:16:55of a foreign country, and as
00:16:59for Professor Nestorović, I would recommend him to change
00:17:02the name of the party and instead of "We, the Strength of the People"
00:17:06in the future to call himself "We, the Strength of Russia,"
00:17:10the fact that Serbia is immune to Russia's interference in the elections clearly
00:17:14shows the extent to which Moscow is involved in matters of
00:17:17internal affairs, concludes the N1 interviewee,
00:17:21adding that this explains why the government is silent. This
00:17:24shows two things, first their
00:17:28absolute dependence on Moscow, and
00:17:31second, their fear, their
00:17:34fear that the Russians. they cannot
00:17:38and must not say anything, they say nothing at the Russian
00:17:41embassy in Belgrade, to N1's questions, whether Branimir
00:17:45Nestorović's claims are true, whether they violated diplomatic
00:17:49rules and interfered in the elections in Serbia, we did not receive
00:17:52an answer, and it seems that Nestorović has disappeared again
00:17:56because he also did not answer our questions. Jelena Mirković,
00:18:00N1, Belgrade.
00:18:03Lustration of public officials is the second
00:18:06point of the student list. It
00:18:10explains that the actions of public officials and
00:18:13the responsibility of all individuals who abused
00:18:16their position, were steeped in corruption or violated
00:18:20human rights, the constitution and laws
00:18:23will be reviewed. Lustrare, in Latin
00:18:27means purification. Students promise that if
00:18:31they win the elections, they will purify society by
00:18:34reviewing the responsibility of all public officials. those steeped in
00:18:38corruption, abuse of office and human rights violations are what would be
00:18:42covered by lustration, a possible ban for 10
00:18:45years from holding public
00:18:49office, it represents the removal from political
00:18:52life of people who were in positions in an authoritarian
00:18:56regime, says the professor of constitutional law. It is not
00:18:59a punitive-corrective measure, but a measure to protect
00:19:02democracy. I think that the citizens of Serbia
00:19:05expect. for
00:19:08trust in institutions, in state
00:19:11institutions to be restored and in this
00:19:14way, meaning
00:19:16by prohibiting uh actors who
00:19:19held positions in an authoritarian regime, by prohibiting them from
00:19:23performing those functions and appearing in political life. Lustration has been
00:19:27carried out in various ways in Germany after the fall
00:19:30of the Berlin Wall and in most countries of the former Eastern Bloc,
00:19:34in Serbia after the fall of Slobodan Milošević.
00:19:39paper, because due to a lack of political will it was never
00:19:43implemented. The student list says that they have learned
00:19:46lessons from the past, but they do not yet reveal details
00:19:50of exactly how they would approach it differently. Well, I would leave that for
00:19:54later, given that the draft of that law is in progress, that
00:19:57program is really being done by people who are, I would say, experts and
00:20:01who have seen the flaws of the previous lustration law which was not
00:20:04applied, this measure can easily slide into a purge,
00:20:08says Professor Beširević, but it is a valuable lever when
00:20:11democracy is still fragile, because
00:20:15a balance must be found between
00:20:18the demand for achieving justice,
00:20:21which the citizens of Serbia expect, and political
00:20:25revanchism, so that is the one,
00:20:29that short, that fine balancing that needs
00:20:32to be found in
00:20:35some law or some other
00:20:38legal act that would enable
00:20:42this protection of democracy. The candidate on
00:20:45the student list states that the goal of lustration is the prosecution
00:20:50of specific individuals based on proven actions,
00:20:53there will be no, she says, mass dismissals or
00:20:57automatic disqualification. Miodrag Sovilj, N1
00:21:01Belgrade.
00:21:06And we are going to Valjevo again, the cyclists have
00:21:09arrived, and Radovan Seratlić is with them. Radovan, how was
00:21:12the welcome?
00:21:33but this is becoming an anthem because of the number three mentioned in the song because
00:21:37of the clip made by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, this is Valjevo
00:21:41tonight, I'm sorry you missed
00:21:45the huge fireworks at the entrance to Valjevo, then there was
00:21:47a red carpet. the bicycle
00:21:51wheels came
00:21:53then,
00:22:01the connection was lost, we'll try maybe again later, to
00:22:05hear and see what's happening and how it is in Valjevo, we
00:22:08continue, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, in
00:22:12the height of the pre-election campaign, opened a drone assembly
00:22:16plant of Israeli production, he says that due to...
00:22:20credibility, he did not invite journalists to tour the factory,
00:22:23but he immortalized his tour on Instagram,
00:22:27let's recall that the opposition, part of the expert public, criticized
00:22:31the announcement of the factory's opening with claims that there were many
00:22:34open questions regarding this project that the government did not
00:22:38provide
00:22:39answers to.
00:22:44let's try once again to connect to Valjevo for
00:22:48the welcome of the cyclists. Radovan. continue
00:22:50that
00:22:55hey, sorry, something interrupted this connection, this
00:22:58night, yes, this
00:23:02is another song, before that it
00:23:05was from desire, the old anthem, this seems
00:23:09to be a new one, the people of Valjevo are
00:23:10here, there are flags of other cities,
00:23:14this balcony is on
00:23:20we just arrived, I have no idea what to tell you except
00:23:24that this caught us,
00:23:26we're asking you to listen and
00:23:28watch a little,
00:23:36well, things are going as planned and with its own playlist, this
00:23:39is a new song,
00:23:41the third one,
00:23:44you'll recognize it, so let's not clear this
00:23:47atmosphere.
00:23:50The day was good, the journey was smooth, the weather was fine,
00:23:5390 km, there are still nine days until
00:23:58people from Vojvodina will join this
00:24:01route which ends and begins in the same cities, it started
00:24:05in Belgrade, and ends in
00:24:07Kragujevac in exactly 10 days, both branches and
00:24:11columns.
00:24:20So you saw what it's like in Valjevo, and you heard Radovan
00:24:24Seratlić.
00:24:32Ever since the public learned about the murder in an upscale
00:24:36restaurant in Senjak, in which the former head of the Belgrade police,
00:24:39Veselin Milić, was involved, that case has been constantly in
00:24:43the public eye. Although more than two months ago the indictment
00:24:46against Milić was filed by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office.
00:24:50Milić will be tried before the first Basic
00:24:53Court, the indictment will be prosecuted by the prosecutor
00:24:57of the first Basic Prosecutor's Office. This information was confirmed
00:25:01for N1, details are provided by our Ana
00:25:04Novaković.
00:25:06The day after the former head of the Belgrade
00:25:09police, Veselin Milić, was released from custody, Portal
00:25:13Nova announced that the case against him was forwarded
00:25:17to the First Basic Prosecutor's Office. The Higher
00:25:20Prosecutor's Office, which conducted the investigation in the Senjak case, immediately
00:25:24denied it, but two months later, those
00:25:27logical assumptions proved to be true,
00:25:31because he was charged with a lesser criminal offense,
00:25:34within the jurisdiction of the Basic Court. The First Basic
00:25:38Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade accepted the indictment
00:25:41filed by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade
00:25:45against the accused Veselin
00:25:47M. For all other questions we had regarding
00:25:51the scheduling of the trial during the proceedings,
00:25:54they directed us to the First Basic Court, which provided
00:25:58us with its answer. The criminal
00:26:01proceedings are currently in the stage of examining the indictment by the individual
00:26:05judge and in the stage of obtaining the necessary documentation proposed
00:26:08as evidence, after which all conditions for scheduling
00:26:12the main hearing will be met, about which the public will be
00:26:16informed timely and promptly, and so the Higher Prosecutor's Office
00:26:19separated Milić from the accused in the same case who will
00:26:23be tried before the Higher Court, ever since the moment when in
00:26:27Milić's case the prosecutor's office dropped the charges against him for
00:26:30aiding the perpetrator after the murder
00:26:33and continued to charge him only for failing to report the murder
00:26:37of the perpetrator, it was clear that the case would go into
00:26:41the hands of a lower prosecutor's office. I think that
00:26:44this is not surprising even for those who led the investigation against
00:26:47him, I mean the Higher Prosecutor's Office which did charge
00:26:51Milić, but knew how it would end, it is not the first
00:26:54time that prosecutor's office does something
00:26:57like that. The murder case in Senjak was marked by
00:27:01the cover-up of the murder in an upscale restaurant,
00:27:04the disappearance of the body, the discovery of the body in a barrel
00:27:07after seven days of search, the involvement
00:27:10of police officers, one of whom was the third highest official
00:27:14in the police, from the very beginning the investigation was full of
00:27:17deficiencies, the prosecutor's office published contradictory
00:27:21and untrue claims in statements, then it also
00:27:24dropped part of the criminal complaint that Marko
00:27:28Kričak, head of the Criminal Police Directorate,
00:27:31filed against Milić. "some things
00:27:35that happened and that fall under criminal law, that
00:27:38is who beat how the four
00:27:42suspects said that someone from the restaurant owners beat them, one even recognized
00:27:45Kričak, what did the prime minister
00:27:49and the president of the ruling party do in that restaurant
00:27:53just one day uh they had lunch after that
00:27:56murder, in this complex case,
00:27:59criminal charges were pouring in from all sides."
00:28:03And the accused Milić responded with a criminal charge against Kričak and
00:28:07his colleague, claiming that they abused their official
00:28:10position by presenting the collected evidence against
00:28:13Milić selectively, incompletely and
00:28:16falsely, as reported by the weekly Radar. Ana
00:28:20Novaković, N1
00:28:22Belgrade.
00:28:25The day after the verdict was pronounced, Chief Prosecutor Kimberly West
00:28:29welcomed the verdict against the leader of the former... KLA Hashim
00:28:33Thaçi, stating that it is important for the rule of law in
00:28:36Kosovo and brings belated justice for the victims.
00:28:40The reactions to the verdict in The Hague were followed by
00:28:43our Sanja Sovrlić.
00:28:46International reactions to the verdict against the former leaders
00:28:49of the KLA, Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and
00:28:53Rexhep Seljivi are diverse, ranging from those
00:28:57who believe the court's decision should be respected to those who
00:29:00protest such a verdict.
00:29:03The Commissioner for Enlargement of the European Union, Marta Kos, said that the Specialized
00:29:07Chambers of Kosovo are an independent and impartial body and that
00:29:10their decisions must be respected. She emphasized individual responsibility,
00:29:14justice for the victims and their families from all communities in
00:29:17Kosovo, as well as the need for confronting the past,
00:29:20healing wounds and reconciliation. The United
00:29:23States respects the verdict and supports the rule
00:29:26of law and the right of victims and their families to justice. They call for
00:29:30all parties to respect the court's decision.
00:29:32The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced that it takes note of
00:29:36the decision of the Specialized Chambers of Kosovo
00:29:39and reiterates its support for the court in the fight against impunity, but
00:29:43also its support for the independence of Kosovo and its
00:29:46institutions. The Deputy Regional Director of Amnesty
00:29:49International for Europe, Ester Major, said that the verdicts give
00:29:53hope to thousands of war victims in Kosovo who have been waiting for justice for more than two decades
00:29:56and show that even high officials are not
00:30:00above the law. She stated that the court confirmed that no one, regardless
00:30:04of their rank or political reputation, is above the law or immune
00:30:08from responsibility for serious international criminal
00:30:11acts. Former NATO General, Wesley Clark
00:30:15told Albanian media that he was shocked and angry about
00:30:18the verdict, saying that he had not seen evidence that, in his opinion, would justify
00:30:22such a decision. Let's recall, Clark testified as a
00:30:26defense witness during the proceedings.
00:30:29Special Prosecutor Kimberly West welcomed
00:30:33the verdict, stating that individuals used wartime circumstances to commit
00:30:36serious crimes and that the accountability of these individuals is
00:30:40important for the rule of law and victims. She emphasized that the court
00:30:44confirmed that no one, regardless of their rank or political reputation,
00:30:47is above the law. Thaçi's
00:30:50lead lawyer, Pierre Richard Prosper, was shocked by the verdict,
00:30:53calling it a wrong decision of justice and saying that the court, in his
00:30:57view, rewrote history. He said that justice