The defence counsel for the wartime Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army, Momcilo Perisic, whom the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague on Tuesday sentenced to 27 years in prison for aiding and abetting the siege of Sarajevo and the murder of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, as well as for failure to punish his subordinates for missile attacks on Zagreb, have said they will appeal the verdict.
The Belgrade-based media cited Perisic's lawyer Novak Lukic as saying that arguments for the appeal would be based on the fact that presiding judge Bakone Justice Moloto was in favour of acquitting Perisic of all the charges.
The lawyer said the defence team would now have to analyse the indictment, written on over 500 pages, after which they would decide on further actions.
An advisor to ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, Frederick Swinnen, told the Serbian news agency Tanjug it was still too early to say if the Office of the Prosecutor would appeal, saying that the judgement was yet to be analysed.
ICTY regulations stipulate that appeals must be announced within 30 days of the judgment rendering. Once an appeal chamber is formed, the appeal needs to be submitted within 75 days.
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