Prominent lawyer who defended Milosevic killed in Belgrade
Police searching for attacker
29 July, 16:47A police statement says Dragoslav Ognjanovic was killed late Saturday outside his home in the new part of Belgrade, the Serbian capital. The statement said Ognjanovic's 26-year-old son was wounded in his right arm.
Ognjanovic was part of the legal team that defended Milosevic at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was tried for war crimes of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006 before the end of the proceedings.
Ognjanovic also defended well-known underworld figures in Serbia.
Serbian police say they are searching for the attacker.
(ANSA-AP).