Identification on the Basis of Photographs
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“Everybody said that the murder was committed out of revenge by Pravdic’s brother. When we presented the eyewitnesses with photographs of men from Orahovica, whose last name was Pravdic, both of them pointed to Franjo Pravdic,” Jovicinac said.
The Prosecution invited the SIPA investigator to testify, because the Defence claimed that, during the investigation the witnesses were induced to name the indictee as the crime perpetrator.
Pravdic, former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, is charged with having killed prisoners of war, brothers Edin and Edib Fejzic, in Orahovica village, near Zepce, in August 1993.
“Following an analysis of statements by eyewitnesses and other persons, everything indicated that the murder was committed out of revenge, because, while the Fejzic brothers attempted to flee, the older one opened fire and killed two HVO members – Jakov Tadic and Ivan Pravdic,” witness Jovicinac explained.
The Defence objected, saying that the procedure was unlawful and that the methodology by which the witnesses were disavowed was applied wrongly, and requested the Court to obtain photo documentation in order to use it as evidence.
The Court rejected the proposal, explaining that no such documentation existed, because no legal obligation for making it existed at the time. It said that official notes were made instead.
The Prosecution completed the presentation of evidence by introducing its material evidence.
The first Defence witnesses are due to appear at the next hearing scheduled for November 14.
