Local Justice Banja Luka: Indictee Testifies about Murder
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Dmicic and Rade Brkic are charged with having killed Alija Lemes. They allegedly did it in collaboration with Dejan Gavric, who has since died. The indictment alleges that the indictees were policemen at that time.
Dmicic told the Court that he was at lunch with his family, when a courier informed him that Acting Commander Gavric asked him to come to the Station.
When I went there, I saw Gavric and Lemes in the office. Gavric told me to go and change my clothes, because we were supposed to take Lemes to Kameno prison, Dmicic said.
As he said, he and Gavric were in a car that drove in front of the refrigerator truck, in which Lemes was.
During our ride Gavric said that Lemes was an extremist, that he had guns and that he refused to pick Serb kids up when he passed by them in his minivan. When we came to Vucija poljana, we switched to a tarmac road. He stopped the car and said that we could not go further, Dmicic said.
As he said, all of them got out of the car, while Gavric went behind the refrigerator.
I heard him say: Get out. Lemes said: Dont kill me. Gavric then began yelling and cursing. When I approached him, I saw Lemes corps on the ground, facing it. A couple of men were there. I think I saw Brkic among them, but I am not sure, Dmicic said.
He said that he told about this to Dusan Stanarevic, Commander of the Police Station in Gornji Ribnik.
Station Commander Stanarevic was at Manjaca at the time, where he guarded prisoners. When he returned, I told him that Lemes was killed and that a bomb was thrown into a Bosniak apartment, Dmicic said.
Defence witness Milica Stanarevic, wife of the former Station Commander, confirmed these allegations.
At the beginning of July 1992 my husband was at Manjaca for about 20 days. As soon as he came back, before he could even change his clothes, Dmicic came. The two of them spoke about something. I left them as I wanted to make them coffee. When I came back, I heard my husband saying: I constantly tried to prevent that. I did not know what he was talking about it, because he never discussed his work with me, Stanarevic said.
The trial is due to continue on Friday, June 22.
G.O.
