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...then gave police the boy's location, but he was already dead. Judges ruled that Gäfgen's rights had been violated, and information obtained from him was inadmissible. Unusual Suspects SERBIA The government crackdown on organized crime, which began after the March assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and has led to thousands of arrests, continued with the detention of two close aides of ex-President Vojislav Kostunica (below) and former army Chief of Staff General Nebojsa Pavkovic. Pavkovic was arrested for real-estate fraud. Kostunica's aides, former counterintelligence chief Aca Tomic and national security adviser Rade...
...bookings for Easter are down 30%. Rugby boosted the numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take up to a week - the SARS incubation period - before scientists will know whether there will be a price to pay for it. - By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong Avenging Djindjic SERBIA Police rounded up - or killed - more suspects in the alleged mob hit of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. His suspected assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, was arrested, and two of three alleged masterminds of the Djindjic murder plot, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third...
ASSASSINATED. ZORAN DJINDJIC, 50, reformist Prime Minister of Serbia who engineered the ouster--and transferral to a war-crimes tribunal--of dictator Slobodan Milosevic; by gunmen, in a parking lot outside his office in Belgrade, Serbia. Police arrested 40 people suspected of ties to the Zemun clan, an underworld syndicate led by ex-Milosevic associate Milorad Lukovic, whom Djindjic--under pressure to crack down on organized crime--was preparing to arrest. A political pragmatist, Djindjic once proudly asserted that "morals are for those who go to the monastery." With his fondness for Tony jewelry, fast cars and Armani suits, Djindjic...
...early October 2000, just before Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown in a bloodless popular revolt, the leader of that movement, Zoran Djindjic, placed a call to one of the most feared men in Serbia: Milorad Lukovic, known to his friends as Legija, or the Legionnaire. Djindjic knew that Lukovic, a square-jawed former paramilitary who was commander of the élite Serbian police unit called the Red Berets, could have crushed the uprising that ousted Milosevic. Djindjic wanted assurances that he would not. But he recognized the risk he was taking by even agreeing to meet Lukovic. "If Milosevic wanted...
...parliament is now a more orderly, more open place than I found it. I've allowed the general public to attend sessions and I've included nongovernmental organizations in the works. I've also invested a lot in modern technologies. Kostunica's supporters say you're a puppet of Djindjic. I'm nobody's puppet. I just follow the procedure. I've had my share of disagreements with Djindjic as well...