NETHERLANDS: ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz denies commenting on the health of genocide detainee Ratko Mladic

Record ID: 644615

  • Title: NETHERLANDS: ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz denies commenting on the health of genocide detainee Ratko Mladic
  • Date: 20th October 2011
  • Summary: THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS (OCTOBER 19, 2011) (REUTERS) CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF ICTY, SERGE BRAMMERTZ, ENTERING THE ROUND TABLE ROOM CAMERA AND JOURNALISTS LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR, SERGE BRAMMERTZ, SAYING: "In our motion to severe indictment, we have mentioned a number of arguments, one of them being the possibility that health could deteriorate. The judges have in the meantime taken their decision, we accept, and we are now looking into other avenues to make sure this trial will be manageable and as streamlined as possible." JOURNALIST WRITING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR, SERGE BRAMMERTZ, SAYING: "The decision taken by judges was within their discretion, I don't see grounds to appeal this decision so we will not appeal." BRAMMERTZ WITH JOURNALISTS JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR, SERGE BRAMMERTZ, SAYING: "As a lawyer, I am absolutely not qualified to give any opinion on medical issues, so I understand that his medical condition is a very specific one, we hope of course that this will be resolved as soon as possible, but for the rest I am really not in position to give more details." ROUND TABLE IN SESSION
  • Embargoed: 4th November 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Netherlands, Netherlands
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA7FQQSTVF241KXL6JU0UKGKUGS
  • Story Text: Chief prosecutor of the International tribunal for former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz told journalists he would not appeal on judges decision not to severe the indictment of genocide detainee Ratko Mladic in two parts, a motion filed by Mr. Brammertz to speed up the trial due to the possibility of Mladic's health deteriorating in the future.
    "In our motion to severe indictment, we have mentioned a number of arguments, one of them being the possibility that health could deteriorate. The judges have in the meantime taken their decision we accept, and we are now looking into other avenues to make sure this trial will be manageable and as streamlined as possible," Brammertz said.
    "I don't see grounds to appeal this decision so we will not appeal," he added.
    Brammertz denied to comment on Mladic's medical condition.
    "As a lawyer I am absolutely not qualified to give any opinion on medical issues, so I understand that his medical condition is a very specific one, we hope of course that this will be resolved as soon as possible, but for the rest I am really not in position to give more details," Brammertz said.
    In November, Mladic will appear in court again in his pre-trial proceedings that should bring about the start of the trial, sometime in the course of next year.
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