"This decision has nothing to do with the first-instance verdict," lawyer Marko Pantić tells "Vreme" and adds that detention is not and must not be a substitute for serving a sentence.
No material evidence was ever found that would prove that singer Jelena Marjanović's husband Zoran was her killer, the weapon used to kill the unfortunate woman was never found, there are no witnesses to the crime, nor was the motive for the murder revealed. Nevertheless, there are judges who are ready to judge the same as the political top of the state and the tabloids, so they send the man to 40 years in prison because, as stated in the first-instance verdict, they are "firmly convinced" that the husband is a murderer
On Friday, the High Court in Belgrade sentenced Zoran Marjanović to 40 years in prison for the serious murder of his wife Jelena Marjanović on April 2, 2016 in Borča. The "murdered singer", killed by blows to the head, became the target of tabloid stretching, a pre-election promise, a quasi-argument for political bribery, it was used to increase the viewership of the reality program "Zadruga" on Pink Television, wrote Jovana Gligorijević five years ago in the text "The bottom is moving". On the occasion of the verdict against Zoran Marjanović, we are republishing her text about the case, which, like no other, was recklessly and recklessly ridden by the tabloids day after day, year after year. That case is a portrait of our time
