Published on 08/09/2026 – 9:56 GMT+2 • Updated
10:14
The heads of the EU’s two main institutions have condemned the presence of senior Serbian officials at the funeral of the convicted war criminal, in a joint statement published simultaneously on X on Tuesday morning.
“The images from Ratko Mladić’s funeral yesterday in Belgrade were shocking. Ratko Mladić was a convicted war criminal. He was responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa wrote on X.
Ratko Mladić, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, died in late August aged 84 in a…
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