On Checkpoint with Indictee

The former policemen and indictee’s work colleagues said that they were in a police patrol, along with Dedic, on Vrankamen checkpoint in Breza.  

Witness Mirsad Redzic said that, after having found out about Dedic’s trial from newspapers, he checked the archives in the Police Station in Breza and concluded that he was with the indictee and Bahrudin Ejsani on Vrankamen checkpoint from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. on June 10, 1992.  

The indictment charges Dedic with having participated in the beating of Serb civilians, while collecting illegal weapons in June 1992. The witnesses said, testifying at this trial, that they were taken out of their houses on June 10.

After having been presented with work schedule, witness Bahrudin Ejsani confirmed that they were deployed to the checkpoint.

“We were not members of a paramilitary formation, but police, so the documentation has to exist,” Ejsani said.  

He said that police did not search houses in order to find weapons, but, in his opinion, military police was in charge of that.  

The two witnesses said that nobody was allowed to leave the checkpoint during his shift, adding that they used to submit reports after having completed their shifts.

The witnesses said that, after having returned to the Police Station at the end of their shift, they neither heard nor saw that anything unusual was happening.

In addition to the indictee, Redzic and Ejsani, Galib Hodzic’s name was written on the patrol schedule sheet.   

Witness Redzic said that Hodzic was certainly not with them on that day, while Ejsani said that he did not remember him, adding that he was probably there, if his name was written on the patrol schedule sheet.   

The trial is due to continue on June 25.