New Hague indictment raised against Vojislav Seselj

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The deputy president of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Aleksandar Seselj, has confirmed for Tanjug that a Hague indictment has been filed against his father, SRS leader Vojislav Seselj, as well as four other party officials - Miljan Damjanovic, Ljiljana and Ognjen Mihajlovic and Miroljub Ignjatovic.

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The indictment was raised by the International Residual Mechanism in The Hague, the successor to the Hague Tribunal.

"It is true that an indictment has been filed. It's a new indictment for contempt of court. It's a fictional act that the Hague Tribunal has given itself the right to introduce as a criminal offense, and that means that whatever they judge to be contempt of court they can charge someone with," said Aleksandar Seselj.

He added that this indictment was raised because the Radicals published books and other printed materials, as well as video and audio materials that expose how prosecution witnesses at the Hague Tribunal were, as he said, instructed and bribed to testify against Vojislav Seselj in the main case against him.

Aleksandar Seselj believes that the filing of a new indictment in the pre-election period is not accidental, because according to him, the Hague Tribunal as a political instrument in the interest and calculations of the US is monitoring the political situation and it is quite possible that based on that they decided to file the indictment right now.

According to him, this is a new case of persecution of the SRS by the Hague Tribunal as an instrument of the US, which has been going on for more than 20 years with the ultimate intention of destroying this party as the main opponent for achieving the goals of the US in Serbia.

Asked what to expect next regarding the indictment, Aleksandar Seselj said that he thinks it is out of the question for the authorities in Serbia to extradite anyone to the Hague Tribunal.

"In that way, they would rank among the worst rulers in Serbia after October 5 (2,000). I don't think that, within the ruling party and coalition, there is any readiness for that to happen," Aleksandar Seselj stated and added that the Radicals continue their political struggle and that the indictment will not hinder them in doing so.

(Telegraf.rs)