VARIOUS: ARRESTED FORMER YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC SPENDS FIRST NIGHT IN HIS DETENTION CELL

Record ID: 973405

  • Title: VARIOUS: ARRESTED FORMER YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC SPENDS FIRST NIGHT IN HIS DETENTION CELL
  • Date: 2nd April 2001
  • Summary: (W4)BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (APRIL 2, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. HAS: BELGRADE PRISON, WHERE FORMER YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC IS BEING HELD 0.04 2. SCU: PRISON WINDOW 0.08 3. HAS: SECURITY GUARDS STANDING AROUND SENTRY BOX 0.14 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(Serbian) DEFENCE LAWYER TOMA FILA SAYING: "He was feeling well yesterday but we've all had no sleep. That includes both the prosecutor and the judge, we haven't slept for four or five nights. The president hasn't slept for four or five nights. I slept for only two hours." (ASKED ABOUT HOW MILOSEVIC FEELS) "He's just exhausted, nothing else." (SPEAKING ABOUT APPLICATION TO BE MADE ON TUESDAY (APRIL 3) TO HAVE MILOSEVIC FREED WHILE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES) "The decision on the complaint will be made today and tomorrow. I, of course, don't expect it to succeed." (SPEAKING ABOUT POSSIBLE TRANSFER TO THE HAGUE) "He cannot be sent up there until a law is passed on co-operation with the Hague tribunal and for this law to pass, the federal parliament has to meet. In this parliament, the SNP (Socialist Peoples Party) will not vote for that, which means this can be resolved only when the question of Montenegro is resolved one way or another." 1.08 5. TV: MAN APPROACHING PRISON GATE 1.13 6. HAS: PRISON 1.15 7. HAS: POLICE GUARD NEAR PRISON 1.18 8. SCU: PRISON GATE CLOSING 1.24 (U4)BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (APRIL 2, 2001)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. WS: EXTERIOR OF BUILDING 1.28 10. VARIOUS OF POLICE LAYING OUT WEAPONS (5 SHOTS) 2.02 (W4)BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (APRIL 2, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. WS: EXTERIOR NATO BUILDING 2.06 12. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL GEORGE ROBERTSON GETTING OUT OF CAR, ROBERTSON SAYING: "NATO very much welcomes the arrest of ex-president Milosevic. It is a step forward but we've still got to see whether he's going to The Hague. Ultimately there won't be peace in the Balkans until all those indicted have received justice." 2.40 13. MV/SV: ROBERTSON SITTING DOWN FOR NATO-EUROPEAN UNION MEETING (2 SHOTS) 2.54 14. SV: EUROPEAN UNION SECURITY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA SEATED FOR MEETING 2.57 15. WIDE OF DELEGATES FOR MEETING SEATED 3.02 (W5)NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 2, 2001) (NBC - NO ACCESS USA/CNN/INTERNET) 16. SV: FORMER UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT WITH INTERVIEWER 3.06 17. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) FORMER UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT SAYING: "I do think that having the domestic court there try him is important. He did commit crimes against the Serb people by embezzling millions of dollars and undermining their economy. But I think it is also very, very important that he stand before the international bar of justice, the international criminal court because here is a man who started wars with Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo; was the one that was behind the plans for ethnically cleansing hundreds of thousands of people and he needs to stand before the international justice." 3.41 18. WIDE OF INTERVIEW 3.44 (W5)KOLUBARA, YUGOSLAVIA (APRIL 2, 2001)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 19. VARIOUS OF KOLUBARA MINE -- WHOSE WORKERS WERE BEHIND THE OUSTING OF MILOSEVIC LAST OCTOBER (2 SHOTS) 3.52 20. SV: (SOUNDBITE)(SERBIAN) MAN SAYING: "It should have been done a long time ago. For the Serbian people to finally liberate themselves from the burden which they have carried for the last 10 years. And for my child to live in a free country, to attend school and to have at least basic minimal life conditions." 4.12 21. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(SERBIAN) MAN SAYING: "There is no need for him to be tried somewhere else. It is better that our people convict him if he is really guilty." 4.20 22. VARIOUS OF MINE (3 SHOTS) 4.32 (W5)POZAREVAC, YUGOSLAVIA (APRIL 2, 2001)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 23. VARIOUS OF NEIGHBOURHOOD WHERE MILOSEVIC'S HOUSE IS LOCATED 4.39 24. CU: ENTRANCE TO HOUSE 4.43 25. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(SERBIAN) MAN SAYING: "What can I say? One should get what one deserves. But I don't like this story about a thief. That is not good. We have become a legal state and we should start thinking about things." 4.58 26. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(SERBIAN) MAN SAYING: "If needs be, Clinton and the others who were destroying our country and killing people -- not the army but civilians -- when they face justice, Milosevic should do it too." 5.11 27. MV: DESTROYED PIZZA RESTAURANT THAT USED TO BELONG TO MILOSEVIC'S SON MARKO, WHO HAS FLED YUGOSLAVIA 5.18 28. SCU: POSTERS BY THE OTPOR STUDENTS' MOVEMENT (STUDENT DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE GROUP) SHOWING MILOSEVIC'S FACE WITH A SLOGAN READING "WHO IS GUILTY?" 5.23 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BELGRADE, KOLUBARA AND POZAREVAC, YUGOSLAVIA/BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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