THE KECMANOVICS ANNOUNCED AN APPEAL: The lawyer claims that the verdict does not differ from the previous one and that the key accusation was not proven!

Lawyer Irina Borovic, who leads the legal defense team of the parents of the boy who committed the mass murder at the “Vladislav Ribnikar” elementary school, said after the sentencing of Vladimir and Miljana Kecmanovic that, according to the defense’s position, this rationale does not differ at all from the rationale of the first-instance verdict – which was overturned – and announced an appeal.

As a reminder, the Higher Court in Belgrade today handed down a verdict to Vladimir and Miljana Kecmanovic, the parents of the boy who committed the mass murder at the “Vladislav Ribnikar” elementary school on May 3, 2023. In the retrial, both parents were sentenced to prison terms – the father 14 and a half years, the mother two years and 11 months.

“Today you heard that the Court did not act on all orders of the Court of Appeal, especially in the part related to the expert evaluation of the minor Kosta Kecmanovic, considering, in its own opinion, that this expert evaluation was not necessary for this court proceeding, even though all circumstances indicated that it was very important to determine what kind of psychological state the minor Kosta was in at the time of the tragic event on May 3,” she said.

Today, the court presented, Borovic assesses, some “careless” comments and conclusions.

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“Like the fact that an MRI did not determine a psychiatric disorder in the minor Kosta, which is a completely unfounded and logically unacceptable construction, and on the other hand, we are talking about a child who is still undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic. Regarding the criminal offense of child neglect, it was never established during this proceeding that the child became neglected due to the behavior of his parents. This fact could only and solely be established by court experts,” she said.

In her opinion, the court did not accept the orders of the Court of Appeal, did not accept the objections, did not eliminate the shortcomings of the previous verdict, and did not perform the expert evaluation of the minor Kosta Kecmanovic in order to be able to speak about the criminal liability of the defendants Miljana and Vladimir Kecmanovic.

As for the criminal offense concerning taking a minor child to a shooting range and the allegedly inadequate storage of weapons, the court based its decisions on the same reasons as in the previous overturned decision.

“To this day, such activities have not been designated as prohibited by law, have not been sanctioned in any way, nor is there any prospect that the legislator will deal with these topics. Also, today we heard that playing games, searching the internet, is some sort of cause of this event. I would really like us to find the cause of such a terrible tragedy in such reasons, however, unfortunately, I think that even with today’s verdict, we absolutely did not get an answer to the question of why the minor Kosta Kecmanovic committed such a terrible massacre on May 3. And I hope that this verdict will not be the place where we will finish the story on that topic, because this problem is significantly deeper and certainly cannot be solved by a single criminal proceeding,” she said.

She announced an appeal to the Court of Appeal.