(23 May 2007) SHOTLIST
Belgrade, 23 May 2007
1. Wide exterior of the special Court for organised crime in Belgrade
2. Policeman with the machine gun on guard outside court
3. Convoy of police cars speeding along road, and into court premises
4. Relatives waiting to get in
5. Wide of Democratic party members protesting, holding banner reading: "40 years is not enough"
6. Police helicopter flying overhead
7. Various shots of the protesters marching with banner and flags
8. Close up of poster held by protester
9. Mid shot of protesters
10. Various interior shots of the empty court room
11. Officials walking through corridor
12. The wife of Milorad Ulemek, (former head of Red Berets paramilitary unit, sentenced to 40 years imprisonment) leaving court building with bodyguards
13. Cutaway of plaque over court door
14. One of the former members of paramilitary unit Red Berets walking down steps, showing a finger to the demonstrators
15. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Nenad Vukasovic, Lawyer of Zvezdan Jovanovic (Red Berets' deputy commander sentenced to 40 years):
"The conclusion of the whole thing is - God forgive them, because they (the judges) do not know what they are doing."
16. Cutaway wide of scene outside court building
17. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Mile Zoric, Spokesman for the special prosecutor for organised crime:
"Slobodan Radovanovic, the prosecutor will appeal on the sentences, (they want to ask for maximum sentencing for all the convicted men, not just the top two) and I would like to add that we would only be really be satisfied if the late prime minister Zoran Djindjic was alive today.''
18. Wide of court exterior with people and media
Belgrade, 22 May 2007
19. Pull out from the window where the sniper was hiding to the back door of the Serbian government building where former Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic was shot
20. Door where he was killed
21. Close-up of plate on wall
FILE: Moscow, 21 February 2001
22. Mid shot of Djindjic and entourage walking through the corridor
23. Cutaway cameraman
24. Mid of Djindjic speaking to reporter
25. Djindjic in car, motorcade leaving ++Night Shot++
STORYLINE:
Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander and 11 other men were on Wednesday convicted of assassinating Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
Two were sentenced to the maximum 40 years in prison.
The Special Court said Milorad Ulemek, former head of Milosevic's elite Red Berets paramilitary unit set up during the wars in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s, organised the March 12, 2003, sniper attack in front of Serbian government headquarters.
Red Berets' deputy commander Zvezdan Jovanovic was convicted of pulling the trigger.
Both Ulemek and Jovanovic were sentenced to 40 years in prison - the maximum under Serbian law.
The other 10 men received sentences between eight and 35 years.
The verdict, read out by chief judge Nata Mesarovic, said the 12 had conspired to kill Djindjic to halt his pro-Western reforms, bring Milosevic's allies back to power and stop further extradition of war crimes suspects to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
Serbia's pro-Western President Boris Tadic and several members of Djindjic's former Cabinet attended the court session.
Most of them expressed satisfaction with the verdicts, but claimed that the trial, dubbed here as "Serbia's trial of the century", failed to address the political motive of the killing.
Lawyers for Ulemek and Jovanovic said they would appeal against the verdict.
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