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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Jan. 9, 2002

Lawyer Files Suit Over NATO Attack

BERLIN. A lawyer for relatives of civilians killed in
a NATO bombing raid on a bridge in Serbia during the
1999 Kosovo war has filed a lawsuit seeking damages
from the German government, a spokeswoman for the
justice authorities here said on Tuesday.


The suit was filed on Dec. 24 by the Berlin-based
lawyer Ulrich Dost, she said, confirming news reports.


Ten people were killed and more than 30 injured, 17 of
them seriously, when North Atlantic Treaty
Organization jets attacked the bridge in the town of
Varvarin, south of the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, on
May 30, 1999. Mr. Dost, who says Germany carries
responsibility for the casualties as a NATO member,
even though its planes were not involved, claims that
the attack was a war crime, and that NATO commanders
broke the Geneva Conventions by deliberately attacking
civilians.The suit does not specify how much he is
seeking for his clients, but in a letter to the German
Defense Ministry last June, he reportedly demanded a
total of DM2.58 million ($1.2 million) for his
clients. (AP)


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