Serbian general Sreten Lukic in Poland can be punished for war crimes committed against Albanians in Kosovo in the late 90s – held on Tuesday gives a non District Court in Warsaw.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former. Yugoslavia in The Hague turned in January this year. Polish to take over the execution of a penalty of two Serbs: Sreten LUKIC and Vladimir Lazarevicia. At the beginning of 2014. 59-year-old Lukić (former head of the Serbian police in Kosovo) was finally sentenced to 20 years in prison and 65-year-old Lazarevic (former commander of the Serbian army in Kosovo) for 14 years. They were found guilty of deportation and murder and other crimes against humanity against the Albanian population in Kosovo in 1998-1999.
On Tuesday, the court adjourned the matter Lazarevicia to January 2015., He referred to the Court in The Hague for a detailed information about the state of his health. Raised by the Polish lawyer Lazarevicia – which supported the Polish prosecutor. 
The Court in the Hague …
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Reach to forward?
In view of LUKIC court considered the legal admissibility of the referral. Probably soon, this decision is final, because the unanimous in this regard were both Polish plenipotentiary Serb and Polish prosecutor.
If the court finally agrees to surrender, the final decision will belong to the Ministry of Justice. If the court would not have agreed, such a decision would be final.
In a separate proceeding – if it came to pass – the court would have to adjust the sentence LUKIC to Polish law (it does not know of sentence 20 years in prison.)
The health status of the criminal under the supervision of the ICC
In justifying the decision, Judge Catherine Capałowska said she met all the conditions for the transfer of a Serb, and does not affect the security of Polish or Polish law. She added that he had a fair trial, the judgment is final, and the actions that are assigned to him, there are also a criminal offense under Polish law.
The judge stressed that Lukić agreed to transfer (although the lack of agreement would not be binding) . According to information provided to the court by the Court, LUKIC health condition is “stable” and there were no “threats” during his stay in the custody of the United Nations. He has held a total of more than 7 years sentence. The court noted that the state LUKIC in Poland will be supervised by the International Red Cross. 
Radislav Krstic …
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The Serbs have not been brought to court; not disclosed, where today they live. It is not known exactly why the Court chose Poland – to accept sentenced by the Court agreed to a total of 17 countries.
Krstic already serving a sentence in Poland
The penalty of 35 years in prison for the massacre in 1995 . in the Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in March this year. already takes place in Poland, another Serbian criminal, gen. Radislav Krstic. A Warsaw court agreed to it in 2012. Then the punishment Krsticia the Hague court in Warsaw adapted to an existing dimension in Poland 25 years in prison.
At the Krsticia given that the cost of its maintenance. approx. 24 thousand. zł per year. He resides in a single-cell, monitored around the clock, in Piotrkow.
The legal basis for taking over by Poland sentenced by the ICTY is included in 2008. Polish agreement with the UN on the exercise of the Court’s judgments. In the parliamentary debate on the agreement, the government representative Igor Dzialuk MS asserted that it is possible to transfer up to five Polish prisoners.
Case Krsticia was the first such case. According to the media, the Court asked Poland to accept convicted, because no country has been able to provide him security. He is the first war criminal odsiadującym in Polish prison sentence of nearly 30 years. The last was a Nazi criminal Erich Koch, Gauleiter of East Prussia, sentenced to death, which was not done – he died in prison in Barczew in 1986.
Author: cb, KLO RZW // / PAP
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