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Police Documents Used as Prosecution’s Evidence

28. November 2014.00:00
At the trial for crimes in the Kladanj area the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, includes police documents on arrests of Serbs in the case file as material evidence.

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Prosecutor Dragan Corlija introduced notebooks of the Police Station in Stupari, Kladanj municipality, saying that, in those notebooks “one can notice that policemen arrested Serb individuals”.

According to Corlija, the arrested persons were brought to the school building in Stupari and then relocated to nearby buildings, in which teachers had lived before.

Prosecutor Corlija said that the evidence indicated that several policemen were in a shift, guarding the detained Serb individuals. As Corlija said, on the basis of a police report from February 26, 1993 one could see that indictee Nedzad Hodzic prevented one person from entering the teachers’ building forcedly.

“With this document we are proving that the security of civilians was not endangered every day, as the Defence wants us to think,” the Prosecutor said.

Hodzic is on trial, along with Safet Mujcinovic, Selman Busnov, Zijad Hamzic, Nusret Muhic, Ramiz Halilovic, Osman Gogic and Kahro Vejzovic, former members of civil and military police, as well as the Territorial Defence, for having committed crimes in Kladanj.

They are indicted for having unlawfully detained Serb civilians in the teachers’ buildings in Stupari and beat them up and treated them in an inhumane manner.

The presentation of material evidence is due to be continued at the next hearing scheduled for December 5.

Amer Jahić


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