Background
He was born to Lieutenant Colonel Pero Simatović and Neda Winter, and was named after his grandfather Franko Winter, founder of a law firm in Bjelovar and an associate of Josip Broz Tito.
He was born to Lieutenant Colonel Pero Simatović and Neda Winter, and was named after his grandfather Franko Winter, founder of a law firm in Bjelovar and an associate of Josip Broz Tito.
Lieutenant Colonel Pero Simatović was high-ranking officer in the Yugoslav People"s Army, who graduated in British naval school after the Second World War.
Simatović was acquitted of all charges on 30 May 2013. However, it was reported in the New York Times that his acquittal and that of Jovica Stanišić had been overturned on 15 December 2015 by a United Nations" ICTY Appeals Chamber (presiding judge, Fausto Pocar). Born in Belgrade, Simatović is an ethnic Croat.
He was the Chief Personnel United Nations Emergency Force Headquarters.
Gaza to the peacekeeping mission in Sinai during 1959. Simatović was accused of committing atrocities against non-Serbs during the Yugoslav wars including persecution and murder.
As part of Milan Martić"s trial at the ICTY, Simatović was found to be part of a "joint criminal enterprise which aimed to create a Greater Serbia including parts of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Simatović was acquitted of all charges on 30 May 2013. However, it was reported in the New York Times that his acquittal and that of Jovica Stanišić had been overturned on 15 December 2015 by the United Nations" ICTY Appeals Chamber (presiding judge, Fausto Pocar).
The two men are prohibited from returning to Serbia and are being held at The Hague.
However, it was reported in the New York Times that his acquittal as well as that of Jovica Stanišić, had been overturned on 15 December 2015 by the appeals chamber, which vacated the initial verdict deemed faulty as it was based on an insistence that the men could only be guilty if they "specifically directed" the crimes. On 22 December 2015, Simatović and Stanišić were granted temporary release. The case is now being handled by the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT, which is taking over the ICTY"s remaining cases as it prepares to close in 2017.
Evidently back in Serbia, the two must report to a local police station in Belgrade every day and surrender their passports to the Serbian Ministry of Justice.
Per ICTY, the judges named for the retrial are Judges Burton Hall, Seon Ki Park and Solomy Balungi Bossa.