Osmic: Court Expert to be Invited Again
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The Trial Chamber accepted the State Prosecution’s proposal to invite Simun Andjelinovic, court medical expert from Split, for a second hearing.
The Prosecution made the proposal after having obtained photographs taken during the course of exhumation of the assassinated Vlatko Kapetanovic. The photographs were obtained from Kapetanovic’s father.
On November 10 this year Andjelinovic presented his findings and opinion during the course of the additional evidence presentation by the Defence, but he was not able to specify in what condition Vlatko Kapetanovic’s body was found on the basis of photographs presented to him at that hearing.
“The previously made findings are not complete. The court expert should conduct a verification of the photographs. We stick to our proposal to examine the court expert again.
“The Prosecution will insist on having the Institute for the Missing Persons submit information about the exhumation, so the court expert can use it to complement his findings,” State Prosecutor Slavica Terzic said after the Defence said there was no need to re-examine the court expert.
Alija Osmic, former member of the Military Police Squad with the 307th Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, is charged with having participated in and supported the unlawful detention, murder and beating of Croats from the Bugojno area and forced them to perform hard labour during the course of 1993 and 1994.
The indictment alleges that in late July 1993, Osmic took Vlatko Kapetanovic from the basement premises of the Marxist Center – Cloister, hit him with his “hands, feet and blunt objects”, which made Kapetanovic fall on the floor, and loaded him into a black Mercedes trunk.
At the hearing held on November 10, 2010, court expert Andjelinovic said he remembered having attended the exhumation conducted in Causlije village, near Bugojno, where the body of Vlatko Kapetanovic and “at least five other bodies” were found. Also, he said that a bullet that penetrated Kapetanovic’s chest caused his death.
The trial is due to continue on December 9, 2010.
A.S.
