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BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The former police officer charged with killing Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has refused to speak at his Belgrade trial, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Zvezdan Jovanovic, 38, a former member of the feared paramilitary Red Berets unit, said he was "convicted before even entering this courtroom," and refused to enter a plea.
He is one of 36 people charged with the murder or with gangland crimes.
Prosecutors claim the killing in March was carried out by Serbian nationalists opposed to Djindjic's co-operation with the war crimes tribunal, and to a threatened clampdown on gangs.
His defence team claims he was pressured into a confession during a police interrogation.
"I do not have confidence in this court and the judiciary of this country and use my right to defend myself with silence," Jovanovic said in court.
The trial is being held in a specially-constructed top-security courtroom, with the defendants housed in the dock behind bullet-proof glass.
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