The arrested Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic was transferred to the Special War Crimes Court in Belgrade on Thursday afternoon where he would be read charges against him and questioned by an investigating judge.
The most wanted fugitive from the Hague tribunal, who was arrested in Serbia on Thursday morning, was transferred to the courthouse from the headquarters of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA). After the hearing, the investigating judge will decide whether the conditions for Mladic's handover to The Hague have been met. Mladic may appeal against that decision, and a final decision will be made by the Ministry of Justice.
Meanwhile, a small group of young people rallied in central Belgrade to protest against Mladic's arrest. They did not carry any banners, but only chanted Mladic's name and "Knife, wire, Srebrenica", an allusion to the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, in July 1995. The rally was watched by several policemen.
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told a press conference that no firearms had been used during the arrest of Mladic in the village of Lazarevo, near Zrenjanin, because no resistance had been offered.
