Closed Hearing at Mato Condric Trial

Acting on a proposal made by the Bosnian state prosecution, the trial chamber decided to exclude the public during MC-2’s testimony, in order to protect the personal life of the injured party.

Mato Condric, a former member of the military police with the Croatian Defense Council (HVO), has been charged with enabling two unidentified members of HVO to rape a woman in the boiler room of the Polet football stadium in Bosanski Brod in late July or early August 1992.

According to the charges, Condric held a revolver and pointed it towards the injured party. After the woman had been raped by the two HVO members, he sexually abused her in a humiliating manner.

Condric is also charged with having participated in the mental and physical abuse of one person in the building of the old public safety station and beat another, Condric allegedly acted in collaboration with another HVO member in a prison located in the storage room of the Beograd department store.

According to the official schedule of hearings held before the Bosnian state court, this trial will continue on March 25.