Serge Brammertz

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 the 11th January 2006 he was appointed by Kofi Annan as UN Special Envoy to the investigation into the attack on the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The Berlin public prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, Brammertz had proposed as his successor. The mandate of the International Independent Investigation Commission of the United Nations was extended on 27 March 2007 by Resolution 1748 (2007) until 15 June 2008.

Brammertz studied law at the Université catholique de Louvain, Criminology at the University of Liège and law at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate. He came from a German family and speaks beside fluent in French, Dutch and English and has good knowledge of other foreign languages.

He began his legal career as an attorney in Verviers, but in 1989 there was in the civil service, where he and deputy prosecutor from 1996 First Public Prosecutor at the Court of First Instance was initially in Eupen. In 1997 he was appointed by the Minister of Justice to the National magistrates. In 2003 he was appointed as Deputy Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC ) in The Hague, where he was primarily concerned with investigations into human rights violations in Uganda, Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was succeeded by the Canadian jurist Daniel Bellemare.

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

Brammertz took effect on 1 January 2008 as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague for four years, the successor of Carla Del Ponte to. He is also responsible for the prosecution of alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Brammerz has collected up to start of the trial on 26 October 2009 over a million pages of supporting materials to demonstrate Karadžić " genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes."

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