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A prominent lawyer who defended former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic on war crimes charges was shot dead in Belgrade, police said on Sunday, Dragoslav Ognjanovic, who was shot dead on Saturday evening. the building where he lived. "The police are looking for the person who killed … the lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic and wounded his 26-year-old son in the arm," said Serbian police chief Dejan Kovacevic.
The authorities have not linked the killing of this 56-year-old man to his work for Milosevic or Luka Bojovic, who would serve 18 years in a Spanish prison for possession of weapons.
The daily Vecernje Novosti said Bojovic is one of the main actors in a battle between two Kotor gangs in Montenegro that caused several deaths
Another Serbian lawyer, Vladimir Zrelec, who was representing one of the main members of the rival gang, was murdered in Dece. Viktor Gostiljac, who heads the Serbian Bar Association, said that "the whole profession" was "in shock after this murder".
He called for a meeting with the Ministers of the Interior and Justice to protect the Serbian lawyers
"The shot on Dragoslav Ognjanovic is a shot on all the lawyers", said a statement from the association that demanded that the killers be quickly arrested.
Ognjanovic served in Milosevic's team of legal advisers. The Serbian leader has appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Balkans in the 1990s.
Milosevic died on 14 March 2006 in his cell of the court of The Hague. accusations of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the conflicts over the break-up of Yugoslavia that left 130,000 dead
Ognjanovic was shot dead in front of the building where he was lived
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