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STORY: ICTY / SESELJ ACQUITTAL
TRT: 01:27
SOURCE: ICTY
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 MARCH 2016, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
1. Wide shot, judges enter courtroom
2. Wide shot, courtroom
3. Wide shot, dais
4. Med shot, empty seats
5. SOUNDBITE (French and English translation) Jean-Claude Antonetti, Presiding Judge:
“With this acquittal on all the 9 counts of the Indictment, the arrest warrant issued by the Appeals Chamber on 17 June 2015 is hereby rendered moot. Following this verdict, Vojislav
Seselj is now a free man.”
6. Pan right, judges standing up and leaving the courtroom
7. Wide shot, empty seats
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today (31 Mar) acquitted Vojislav Šešejl, Serbian politician, president of the Serbian Radical Party and a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
Vojislav Šešelj, 61, was not in the courtroom at The Hague to hear the verdict. He is currently being treated for cancer and he had been allowed to return to Serbia because of his deteriorating health.
"Vojislav Seselj is now a free man," declared French judge Jean-Claude Antonetti at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Šešelj faced nine counts of which three crimes against humanity (persecution, deportation and inhumane act of forcible transfer) and six war crimes (murder, torture and cruel treatment, wanton destruction, destruction or wilful damage done to institutions dedicated to religion or education, plunder of public or private property).
He was accused of having directly committed, incited, aided and abetted those crimes committed by Serbian forces during the period from August 1991 until September 1993, or to have been part of their commission through his participation in a joint criminal enterprise (JCE).
