Parents of Serbia's teenage school shooter given jail terms in retrial
Key takeaways
- Paul Kirby,Europe digital editorand Slobodan Maricic,BBC Serbian in Belgrade Slobodan Maricic/BBC Serbian.
- The boy was 13 when he shot dead seven girls, a boy and a school guard at Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade in 2023.
- Kecmanović was sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison on Thursday.
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Paul Kirby,Europe digital editorand Slobodan Maricic,BBC Serbian in Belgrade Slobodan Maricic/BBC Serbian. The boy's mother Miljana Kecmanović has been given a jail term of two years and 11 months for neglect. The parents of a boy who shot dead nine children and a security guard at a Serbian elementary school have been given jail terms in a retrial in Belgrade.
The boy was 13 when he shot dead seven girls, a boy and a school guard at Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade in 2023. Another girl died later in hospital.
The shooter was under the age of criminal responsibility and was placed in a psychiatric institution, but his parents Vladimir and Miljana Kecmanović were accused of neglect and abuse of a minor, while his father was also accused of a serious offence against public safety.