Florence Hartmann, former spokesperson of the Hague Tribunal, speaks about her new book

[Marcus Marulus]

Florence Hartmann: Nice Was an MI6 Spy

Florence Hartmann claims that Hague prosecutor Geoffrey Nice was an MI6 spy in a letter she sent to daily newspaper Jutarnji list.

Former spokeswoman of the Hague Office of the Prosecutor Florence Hartmann claims that prosecutor Geoffrey Nice was an MI6 spy in a letter she sent to daily newspaper Jutarnji list yesterday. Apart from that, Hartmann points out that Nice did not fight to get Slobodan Milosevic convicted for the Srebrenica genocide.

Nice wanted to throw out the gravest charges against Milosevic

It was the former Kosovo leader Azem Vllasi who told Hartmann that Nice was an MI6 spy. Nice himself had said to Vllasi that, in 1966, MI6 had sent him to monitor the Brijuni plenum.

In her book “Peace and Punishment,” which Hartmann published in France on September 10, she writes that Nice kept trying to throw out the gravest charges from the indictment against Milosevic, including Srebrenica, Sarajevo and genocide.

Nice had previously contacted Jutarnji list with a letter, saying that Hartmann had interpreted things in such a way that they only benefit the politization of the prosecution, which is to say, that they only work in Carla Del Ponte’s favour.

The small media war between Nice and Hartmann continues in yesterday’s letter, in which the spokeswoman cites the fact that the prosecutor has not even read her book as the main problem in the misunderstanding.

Obstacles in Milosevic case

Hartmann points out that she has never said that the Milosevic case was obstructed and politicized, but only that some portions of the case met serious obstacles, which came both from the prosecutors and from Belgrade, the USA, Great Britain and France.

The obstacles Hartmann mentions are the wiretapped conversations between Milosevic and Serbian war leaders during the “Srebrenica massacre,” which Americans did not submit to the court, as well as some parts of the evidence that slept in the prosecutors’ box for years without anyone feeling it necessary to present them to the court as relevant.

Srebrenica massacre could have been prevented

The reason why Americans covered up the evidence, says Hartmann, is the fact that those conversations clearly show that the USA, France and Great Britain could have prevented the massacre in Srebrenica.
In the end, Florence Hartmann points out that her book, which will be published in Croatia in November, was written based on documented evidence.

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