Belgrade faculty capturing: Mother and father of teenage attacker jailed
The mother and father of a teenage boy who killed 9 youngsters and a safety guard in a mass capturing at a faculty in Serbia final 12 months have been jailed.
The boy’s father, Vladimir Kecmanoviæ, was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years imprisonment on Monday, whereas his mom, Miljana Kecmanoviæ, was given a three-year jail sentence.
Nemanja Marinkovic, an teacher on the Partizan capturing membership who taught the boy find out how to use a gun, obtained a sentence of 1 12 months and three months.
The boy, who has been held in a psychiatric establishment because the Might 2023 assault, can’t be placed on trial as a result of he’s under the age of felony accountability.
Nevertheless, his mother and father had been accused of a “severe act in opposition to normal security” for failing to safe the weapons and ammunition correctly. They denied the costs.
Their trial has been held behind closed doorways.
On the excessive courtroom in Belgrade on Monday, Vladimir was discovered responsible of endangering public security by educating his son to shoot and failing to safe his gun. He was additionally convicted of neglecting a minor.
Miljana was discovered responsible of neglecting a minor however acquitted of illegally possessing weapons and ammunition.
The boy, who has been recognized solely as KK, was dropped at the courtroom in October by a particular escort, leaving the psychiatric hospital for the primary time because the assault at Vladislav Ribnikar main faculty.
He was questioned as a witness by the decide, the prosecutor and defence and attorneys for the households of the lifeless and wounded. He additionally answered questions from the mom of a murdered little one.
Mother and father of the murdered youngsters attended the listening to within the hope of shedding mild on the motive for the boy’s mass capturing.
A lawyer representing the households described it as “one of the crucial harrowing trials I’ve witnessed in my profession”.
KK was 13 when he took a handgun to the varsity and opened hearth on different youngsters. Eight of the 9 youngsters he murdered had been ladies.
Serbia was plunged into additional grief lower than 48 hours later, when one other eight folks had been shot lifeless by a 21-year-old man in a village outdoors the capital.
Following his testimony at his mother and father’ trial, the household’s lawyer informed reporters that the boy had lived a traditional life earlier than the capturing and no courtroom course of would have the ability to set up what had led to his assault.
