Slavko Ikanovic Trial Begins
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According to the indictment, Ikanovic participated in the killing of Croatian civilians in October 1992 in Derventa.
Zoran Vukovic, one of the technicians who testified at the hearing, said his colleague from the Derventa police station, Jovo Jeftic, and investigating judge Branko Petric, conducted the investigation into the Anica Andelic murder. Vukovic said he produced the photo-documentation presented in the courtroom.
Vukovic said that after he returned the Derventa police station, he reported that Dragoljub Ikanovic and Stanko Vukmirovic had entered Andelic’s house in Gornji Bozinci, accompanied with other unidentified persons.
“While conducting the investigation, someone mentioned these names,” Vukovic said. He said he saw the defendant for the first time in the courtroom.
Jovo Jevtic, who also testified at this hearing, said the investigation was carried out after the murder was reported, and that his task was to conduct interviews about the incident.
Jeftic said he couldn’t remember the details of the event and requested that a previous statement he gave to investigators from the Bosnian state prosecution and the State Investigation and Protection Agency at the police station in Derventa be read to him.
After his statement was read, Jeftic confirmed that Anica Andelic’s husband, Ilija Andelic, had said that on the night of 17 to 18 October, 1992, Dragoljub Ikanovic, Zoran Vukmirovic and others entered their house at approximately 12:30, and that they ordered him, his wife and another neighbor to go outside.
Jeftic said Andelic told him Vukmirovic was armed.
According to Jeftic, Ilija Andelic said he was told he wouldn’t be killed because he was a good man. He said Ikanovic, Vukmirovic and the others walked away from his house after he gave them a ten liter canister filled with brandy. Jeftic also said he’d never seen the defendant before.
The trial continues on April 29.
