Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's lawyers Dragoslav Ognjanovic, centre, and Zdenko Tomanovic, right. Photo / AP file
Lawyers in Serbia declared a week-long strike to protest against the killing of a prominent colleague who was on the legal team that defended former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.
Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 56, was gunned down yesterday outside his home in the new part of
Belgrade, the Serbian capital, police said. Ognjanovic's 26-year-old son was wounded in the arm during the shooting.
Police said they were searching "intensively" for the killer. Serbian media reported that police sealed off the area near the home and blocked exits from the city. The search continued today.
Ognjanovic was part of the legal team that defended Milosevic at the UN tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, where Milosevic was tried for war crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006 before the end of the court proceedings.
Ognjanovic has also defended well-known crime figures in Serbia. Serbian media said his killing might have been the latest in a series of Mafia-style executions that took place amid an ongoing war among criminal gangs in Serbia and in neighbouring Montenegro.
