Prosecution Requests Extension of Prohibiting Measures
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Prosecutor Ozrenka Neskovic said that normal course of the proceeding could only be ensured by extending the measures.
According to the indictment, which was confirmed on January 21, Savo Tepic, Dusko Vujicic, Dragoslav Bojic, Dusko Maksimovic, Radojko Keverovic, Rade Skoric and Ilija Kurusic, former police officers and managers, participated in the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats in the Kotor-Varos area from May to the end of 1992.
In December last year prohibiting measures, including a ban on meeting accomplices and an obligation to report to the Police Station, were ordered against them. Tepic and Vujicic have also been banned from travelling.
“Numerous subjective and objective pieces of evidence imply that the indictees committed the crimes charged upon them. We have already planned protection measures for 17 witnesses, because they are returnees to Kotor-Varos,” Neskovic said.
The Defence of the eight indictees objected to the proposed measure, prohibiting the indictees from meeting witnesses and each other.
“Our hands are tied. This violates the indictees’ right to defence directly. The Prosecution cannot have an exclusive right to organise and communicate with witnesses. The Defence must be enabled to do that as well,” said Aida Kreso, Defence attorney of Keverovic.
Goran Bubic, Defence attorney of indictee Tepic, objected to the proposed measure, obliging his client to report to the Police Station every day, due to the type of job he performed. Also, he requested the Court to reduce the obligation to one day per week. The Prosecutor left it up to the Court to decide whether the indictee would report to the Station every day or once a week.
The Court will render a decision concerning the extension of prohibiting measures at a later stage.
