{"id":5217,"date":"2019-10-01T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:08:38","slug":"politician-accused-of-arson-attack-on-journalists-home-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scf.clickr.rs\/en\/politician-accused-of-arson-attack-on-journalists-home-pleads-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician accused of arson attack on journalist&#8217;s home pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 1, 2019<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dragoljub Simonovi\u0107, a former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka and an official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), who is accused of ordering an arson attack on the house of journalist Milan Jovanovi\u0107 last December last year, appeared in court after months of obstructing the trial process, stating that he absolutely doesn&#8217;t feel guilty for that crime.<\/h2>\n<p>The other three suspects &#8211; Vladimir Mihailovi\u0107, Igor Novakovi\u0107 and Aleksandar Marinkovi\u0107 \u2013 partially admitted their guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Mati\u0107 Alimpijevi\u0107, the lawyer of Milan Jovanovi\u0107 and his wife Jela Deljanin, said that the defendants intended to kill her clients and that she still considers that they should have been charged with attempted murder. 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