Serge Brammertz

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Serge Brammertz, 2009

Serge Brammertz (born February 17, 1962 in Eupen ) is a Belgian lawyer and currently chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague .

From January 11, 2006, he was appointed by Kofi Annan as a UN special envoy to investigate the attack on the vehicle convoy of the Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The Berlin attorney general, Detlev Mehlis , had suggested Brammertz as his successor. The mandate of the International Independent Commission of Inquiry of the United Nations was extended to June 15, 2008 by resolution 1748 (2007) on March 27, 2007 .

Brammertz studied law at the Université catholique de Louvain , criminology at the University of Liège and law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he also received his doctorate . He comes from a German-speaking family and speaks fluent French, Dutch and English and has a good knowledge of other foreign languages.

He began his legal career as a lawyer in Verviers , but entered the civil service in 1989, where he was initially deputy public prosecutor and from 1996 first public prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in Eupen. In 1997 he was appointed National Magistrate by the Minister of Justice . In 2003 he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague , where he was primarily involved in investigations into human rights violations in Uganda , Darfur and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . He was succeeded by the Canadian lawyer Daniel Bellemare .

On April 28, 2007, Brammertz received the Belgian honorary title of Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown .

Brammertz as chief prosecutor of the ICTY

On January 1, 2008, Brammertz succeeded Carla Del Ponte for four years as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague . Among other things, he is responsible for the charges against the alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić . By the start of the trial on October 26, 2009, Brammerz had collected over a million pages of evidence to prove Karadžić “genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes”.

In April 2014 Brammertz was raised to the nobility by the Belgian King Philippe , his title is that of a baron . Since February 2016, Brammertz has been chief prosecutor of the international residual mechanism for the ad hoc criminal courts .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Security Council Appoints Serge Brammertz, Former Lead Investigator of Lebanese Prime Minister's Death, to Head International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia . UN Security Council Resolution 1786 , November 28, 2007.
  2. ^ War criminals trial in The Hague. Karadžić is heard by UN judges for the first time ( memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tagesschau.de , July 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ Michael Götschenberg: War crimes trial against Karadzic begins. “The worst crimes that exist” ( Memento of October 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tagesschau.de , October 26, 2009.
  4. ↑ BRF website: eadelt: Serge Brammertz is now a baron , accessed on April 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Brammertz, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian lawyer and UN special envoy
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen