Priest Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Murder

in Serbia
June 21, 2013

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Branislav Peranovic (55), was found guilty for the First Degree murder of Nebojsa Zarubac (39). Peranovic was sentenced to 20 years in prison, reported Kurir.

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The investigating judge Slobodan Velisavljevic stated that Peranovic was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering Nebojsa Zarubac, who was at the center for drug rehabilitation ”Sretenje” at Jadranska Lesnica, which was managed by Peranovic since 2010.

Peranovic was accused of a cruel murder by inflicting serious injuries to Zarubac with a stick, and also by kicking him with legs and fists.

According to Ilija Radulovic, Peranovic’s lawyer, Zarubac was on rehabilitation, but he tried to leave the center. Peranovic also suspected that he was drugged, and tried to ”stop” him by beating him. Lawyer considers this murder as a result of Zarubac’s attempt to escape the camp.

“Two experts were interviewed – pathologists who confirmed the death in a violent way due to light and serious injuries that caused bleeding, loss of consciousness and suffocation with gastric juice. I believe that all this is sufficient for a minimum of 25 years in prison, although the offense is punishable up to 40 years”, said Dusan Pasic, lawyer of the Zarubac family.

Peranovic became notorious after a video of his ”rehabilitation treatment”, while he was a warden at the ”Crna Reka” center for rehabilitation, in 2009. Here is the video of Peranovic from 2009, almost a year before the murder of Zarubac, which shows his ”treatment measures”: