Serbian Radical Party Leader Burns EU NATO Flags
Date
3/10/2016 9:23:00 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Seselj set fire to the flags on Thursday after the Special Court postponed the hearing about his extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ICTY in The Hague for the verdict in his war crimes trial on March 31.
The Serbian Radical Party leader accompanied by several dozen supporters and party members said he could not wait for the next hearing to be scheduled “so that I explain to them the legal reasons why I cannot be extradited to the Hague Tribunal” Seselj said. He also tried to enter the court but was not allowed to do so as the hearing was postponed. Belgrade’s Higher Court which helps in extradition processes according to Serbia’s Law on Cooperation with the ICTY said on Wednesday that the hearing was put off for procedural reasons. Before he learned that the hearing was postponed Seselj once again reiterated that he would not return to The Hague voluntarily. “They would have to carry me” he said. He was allowed to return to Belgrade from detention in The Hague in November 2014 after being granted temporary release by the ICTY on humanitarian grounds to undergo cancer treatment. After several controversial delays the verdict in the case against him has been set for March 31and the UN court has asked him to return to detention in The Hague. He has refused to go back voluntarily but the Serbian authorities haven’t yet arrested him citing his poor health as a reason. Serbia’s justice minister Nikola Selakovic has said he doesn’t know whether Seselj will be sent back to the ICTY by March 31. “The case is in the hands of the [Belgrade] court and we will see what happens next” Selakovic said on Wednesday. During Thursday’s protest Seselj also said that his party will do whatever it takes for its members Vjerica Radeta Jovo Ostojic and Petar Jovicsuspected of threatening witnesses at his trial not to be sent to the Hague court to face contempt charges. Seselj is on trial for alleged wartime crimes in Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
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