Ballistics Expert at Mladic Trial Continues Testimony

Prosecutor Caroline Edgerton argued that Dzenana Sokolovic and Nermin Divovic were “easily visible civilians” from Bosnian Serb positions in Grbavica.

“Yes, if they stood in that place, I didn’t dispute this,” Poparic said, who suggested the incident took place after Sokolovic and her son had already crossed the street.

Edgerton also claimed that they could have been shot from the Metalka building in Sarajevo, which was under Serb control. Poparic said “a good shooter could have hit them from there.”

Edgerton also disputed Poparic’s claims that Bosnian Serb forces in 1994 did not shoot at trams in Sarajevo’s city center, injuring civilians.

Poparic stuck to his claim that the Bosnian Army shot at trams from the Executive Council building in Sarajevo’s city center.

Edgerton reminded Poparic that UN peacekeeping forces never said in any report that sniper fire came from the Executive Council building.

Edgerton disputed Poparic’s claim that the wide angle from which the bullets hit the trams proves that they were fired from the Executive Council building, which was nearby. She presented footage from the crime scene, in which UN peacekeepers said the angle was not wide at all.

“I cannot see the angle from this footage,” Poparic said. He said the angle would have been very narrow if the bullets had come from Grbavica, which he could not see from the film.

Edgerton said Poparic wrongly indicated the location in which trams were hit in order to assign blame to the Bosnian Army.

Poparic rejected this claim and said that the locations were marked correctly, based on evidence and witness statements.

Poparic will continue testifying on Thursday.