TWO SERBIANS ACQUITTED OF RAPE CHARGES...
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – The Kosovo Supreme Court acquitted Jovica Dejanovic from Priluzje and Djordje Bojkovic from Babin Most on 1999 rape charges filed by the Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office. A joint indictment was raised against the two Serbs according to which they allegedly raped an Albanian woman during the conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija in 1999, although they did not know each other at that time.
The defendants’ lawyer Miodrag Brkljac t...old a news conference that the decision of the Kosovo Supreme Court helps restore faith that justice always prevails in the end as these people were eventually acquitted of all charges, and underscored that the experiences they were exposed to during this time left lasting negative consequences for their lives and the lives of their families.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – The Kosovo Supreme Court acquitted Jovica Dejanovic from Priluzje and Djordje Bojkovic from Babin Most on 1999 rape charges filed by the Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office. A joint indictment was raised against the two Serbs according to which they allegedly raped an Albanian woman during the conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija in 1999, although they did not know each other at that time.
The defendants’ lawyer Miodrag Brkljac t...old a news conference that the decision of the Kosovo Supreme Court helps restore faith that justice always prevails in the end as these people were eventually acquitted of all charges, and underscored that the experiences they were exposed to during this time left lasting negative consequences for their lives and the lives of their families.
Jovica Dejanovic said that the entire trial against them was staged. “I had black hair during my imprisonment and I have come out all gone grey from suffering. The entire case was staged and the witnesses were false,” Dejanovic said. Djordje Bojkovic, obviously deeply shaken and in tears, told the reporters that such arrests aim to banish Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija.
“I am severely depressed and I am having a hard time because I am an honest man with clear consciousness. I have experienced a severe trauma, the arrest, the fallout of my family, banishment from Pristina… It is a known fact that their intention is to banish us from our centuries’ long homesteads… But I will never be a refugee and a fugitive because I have no reason for it,” Bojkovic said. Dejanovic, Bojkovic and their lawyer Miodrag Brkljac expressed gratitude to the Office for Kosovo-Metohija for the assistance and wholehearted support it gave them.
According to the lawyer, the Albanian woman as the victim and the damaged party in the case voiced contradictory statements during the trial, as she said back in 1999 that she was raped by one man, only to change the statement nine years later and begin claiming that she was raped by two men.
“I am severely depressed and I am having a hard time because I am an honest man with clear consciousness. I have experienced a severe trauma, the arrest, the fallout of my family, banishment from Pristina… It is a known fact that their intention is to banish us from our centuries’ long homesteads… But I will never be a refugee and a fugitive because I have no reason for it,” Bojkovic said. Dejanovic, Bojkovic and their lawyer Miodrag Brkljac expressed gratitude to the Office for Kosovo-Metohija for the assistance and wholehearted support it gave them.
According to the lawyer, the Albanian woman as the victim and the damaged party in the case voiced contradictory statements during the trial, as she said back in 1999 that she was raped by one man, only to change the statement nine years later and begin claiming that she was raped by two men.
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