Upset Civilians in Breza Police Station
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Dzevahid Sokic, former Chief of the Group for Discovering Criminality with the Police Station in Breza, said that no beating or killing of civilians took place at the Station in June 1992.
Sokic said that crime police examined Serb civilians, who were arrested because weapons had been found at their houses. He said that he personally examined Nikola Novakovic and that the man was then released.
“I know Dedic, because he was my subordinate. It is not known to me that any reports were filed against him,” Sokic said.
Hajrudin Dedic is charged with having participated in the beating of Serb civilians during an operation to collect illegal weapons in June 1992.
Testifying at this hearing, Meho Kulic, former Commander of the Police Station in Breza, said that he was “99 percent sure” that Dedic “was in the afternoon shift at Vrankamen checkpoint” on June 10, 1992.
Kulic said that he remembered having seen arrested civilians in the Station corridors, while they were waiting to be examined.
“I noticed that they were upset, but I neither heard nor saw that anybody beat them,” Kulic said, adding that policemen did not examine the arrested persons.
The trial is due to continue on July 4.
