Mother and father of teenage attacker jailed

The dad and mom of a young person who killed 9 youngsters and a safety guard in a mass college capturing in Serbia final yr have been jailed.

The boy’s father, Vladimir Kecmanoviæ, was sentenced to 14 and a half years in jail on Monday, whereas his mom, Miljana Kecmanoviæ, was sentenced to a few years in jail.

Nemanja Marinkovic, an teacher on the Partizan capturing membership who taught the boy the best way to use a gun, was sentenced to at least one yr and three months.

The boy, detained in a psychiatric institution because the Could 2023 assault, can’t be tried as a result of he has not reached the age of legal duty.

Nonetheless, his dad and mom have been accused of a “severe act towards normal safety” for failing to correctly safe the weapons and ammunition. They denied the accusations.

Their trial occurred behind closed doorways.

On Monday, on the Belgrade Excessive Court docket, Vladimir was discovered responsible of endangering public security by instructing his son to shoot and failing to safe his weapon. He was additionally convicted of neglect of a minor.

Miljana was convicted of neglect of a minor however acquitted of unlawful possession of weapons and ammunition.

The boy, recognized solely as KK, was delivered to court docket in October by a particular escort, leaving the psychiatric hospital for the primary time because the Vladislav Ribnikar main college assault.

He was questioned as a witness by the decide, the prosecutor, the protection and attorneys for the households of the lifeless and injured. He additionally answered questions from the mom of a murdered youngster.

Mother and father of the murdered youngsters attended the listening to hoping to make clear the motive for the boy’s mass capturing.

A lawyer representing the households described it as “probably the most distressing trials I’ve witnessed in my profession.”

KK was 13 when he introduced a handgun to highschool and opened fireplace on different youngsters. Eight of the 9 youngsters he murdered have been women.

Serbia was plunged into contemporary grief lower than 48 hours later when eight extra individuals have been shot lifeless by a 21-year-old man in a village exterior the capital.

After his testimony at his dad and mom’ trial, the household’s lawyer informed reporters that the boy had led a standard life earlier than the capturing and that no authorized course of would be capable of set up what led to his assault .