sentences:  In 1999, before the assassination took place, Vučić gave a front page interview to the tabloid "Argument" in which he stated "I will have my revenge on Slavko Ćuruvija for all the lies published in "Dnevni telegraf" ("Ćuruvija's paper").In 2014, Vučić apologized to the Ćuruvija family for having waited so long to bring the perpetrators to justice, and thanked everyone who was involved in solving the case for their work.Branka Prpa, Ćuruvija's common-law spouse, said Vučić participated in the murder and that he is the creator of the practice of persecution of journalists.