Serbian attorney Dragoslav Misa Ognjanovic was killed in a shooting that occurred in the ‘Antifasisticke borbe' street in Belgrade, the Interior Ministry said. His 26-year-old son was wounded in his right arm and the police are searching for the perpetrator of this crime, said Head of the Crime Police Unit Dejan Kovacevic.

Ognjanovic was in the legal team of Luka Bojovic, one of the defence attorneys of Serbia’s former President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague tribunal, and was also the defence counsel for Djordje Prelic, one of the accused in the case of the murder of Brice Taton, a French football team supporter who was beaten to death by a mob in Belgrade, in 2009.

Due to Ognjanovic’s murder, the Serbia and Belgrade bar associations announced they would stop their work completely for one whole week and that they would provide an award to whoever provides a valuable piece of information on the perpetrator of this crime to the Prosecution.

“The murder of attorney Miso Ognjanovic shows best the circumstances in which attorneys in Serbia are performing their professional work. This murder is only the last in a series of numerous attacks on attorneys, many of which have remain unsolved to date,” the Bar Association of Serbia said.

They announced they would request urgent meetings with Serbia’s Interior and Justice ministers Nebojsa Stefanovic and Nela Kuburovic in order to “analyse all the activities undertaken so far and to form a special investigative team”.