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Paul Kirby,Europe integer editorand Slobodan Maricic,BBC Serbian successful Belgrade
Slobodan Maricic/BBC Serbian
The boy's parent Miljana Kecmanović has been fixed a jailhouse word of 2 years and 11 months for neglect
The parents of a lad who changeable dormant 9 children and a information defender astatine a Serbian simple schoolhouse person been fixed jailhouse presumption successful a retrial successful Belgrade.
The lad was 13 erstwhile helium changeable dormant 7 girls, a lad and a schoolhouse defender astatine Vladislav Ribnikar schoolhouse successful Belgrade successful 2023. Another miss died aboriginal successful hospital.
The shooter was nether the property of transgression work and was placed successful a psychiatric institution, but his parents Vladimir and Miljana Kecmanović were accused of neglect and maltreatment of a minor, portion his begetter was besides accused of a superior offence against nationalist safety.
Kecmanović was sentenced to 14 years and six months successful situation connected Thursday. His woman received 2 years and 11 months.
Both defence and prosecution person lodged appeals against the jailhouse terms.
Zora Dobričanin, a lawyer representing families of the victims, spoke of the proceedings arsenic a "long fight" that would proceed successful the tribunal of appeal.
Mass weapon attacks were highly uncommon successful Serbia and schoolhouse shootings unheard of, erstwhile the Belgrade onslaught took spot connected 3 May 2023. The lad had taken 2 handguns from his father's safe, enactment them successful his backpack and gone to school, opening occurrence successful the hallway and past a classroom.
As good arsenic the 10 radical killed, different 5 children and a past teacher were wounded.
Two days aboriginal a gunman killed 9 radical successful a drive-by onslaught adjacent Belgrade.
Tens of thousands of radical took to the streets successful protestation and the Serbian authorities reacted with a weapon amnesty and tougher laws.
The boy's parents archetypal went connected proceedings successful 2024, erstwhile the tribunal heard grounds from their lad down closed doors.
Although the begetter was fixed a agelong jailhouse word for grooming his lad to grip guns and failing to store them safely, the boy's parent was cleared of amerciable possession of firearms and convicted of neglect. An teacher from a shooting scope wherever the lad practised was besides recovered blameworthy of giving mendacious evidence.
However, the tribunal of entreaty successful Belgrade ordered a retrial for the boy's parents successful November 2025, ruling that the reasons down the verdicts were unclear and contradictory. The begetter was kept successful custody, portion the parent was allowed to enactment retired of jailhouse until this year's trial.
The retrial began past January and the main authoritative argued that convictions for the parents would supply portion of the reply to however Serbian nine responded to 1 of the astir tragic events successful the country's peacetime history.
Detailing what had happened connected 3 May 2023, the justice revealed that the lad had fired 66 bullets implicit a play of 2 minutes and 1 second, and galore of them had deed his victims, Serbian reports said.
Defence counsel for the mates told the tribunal that its determination to find some parents blameworthy of neglect was nary antithetic from the archetypal verdict that had been overturned.
They argued that the charges had not been proven and nary adept sentiment had been provided arsenic grounds that the lad had been neglected.
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