Witness Findings about Murder of Mujo Gacko
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Fahrija Mutapcic, whom the Prosecution examined on November 10, specified, responding to questions by the Defence, that she was in the woods, where she heard from other women that Petar had killed Mujo Gacko.
I heard some women saying: Petar killed Mujo Gacko too. I think that they were present at the crime scene I heard that he was killed in the house, Mutapcic said.
The Defence presented a statement given by the witness in March 2012, when she said that she heard that Gacko got killed but she did not know who killed him.
Petar Kovacevic, a former member of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, is charged with having participated in the persecution, detention, murder and rape of Bosniak civilians in the Visegrad area from May to August 1992.
Mirsada Mutapcic, the second witness whom the Defence cross-examined at this hearing, said that her father-in-law told her that five armed soldiers came to their door and that a person nicknamed Doctor shot at those people.
Responding to a Defences question, she said that the indictee did not do it.
At a hearing held on November 10 the witness said that her father-in-law Salko told her how her husband Ahmet was killed in Zlatnik village in late May 1992.
As she said, her husband came to Zlatnik at night between May 26 and 27, when the Serb forces shelled the village, in order to check whether his parents were fine. At the previous hearing she said that her husband had never come back.
Testifying today, she said that her father-in-law told her that an armed group of Serbs, including Petar, surrounded Zlatnik village, and that, besides Petar, his son and a person called Doctor were there as well.
The trial is due to continue on December 1.
