State Prosecution Requests Custody for Tepic and Vujicic

The custody motion, to which the Defence objected, referred to Savo Tepic and Dusko Vujicic. It was filed due to a danger that they might flee and a possibility that they might influence accomplices and witnesses. Prohibiting measures were requested for the five remaining suspects.

Prosecutor Ozrenka Neskovic said that Tepic and Vujicic might flee to Serbia, whose citizenship they had. She said that the suspects might influence the witnesses in order to make them change their statements or give up on testifying.

The Defence attorneys said that suspects Tepic and Vujicic were willing to offer their personal property, personal documents and travel documents as a guarantee that they would respond to State Court’s invitations to appear in court. The Defence attorneys consider that there is no grounded suspicion that the two suspects committed crimes.

Neskovic requested prohibiting measures, including a ban on meeting accomplices and witnesses, for Dusko Maksimovic, Dragoslav Bojic, Radojko Keverovic, Rade Skoric and Ilija Kurusic. The Prosecutor said that they were members of the Public Safety Station in Kotor-Varos.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina suspects them of crimes against humanity and having participated in the detention of the Bosniak and Croat population in the old prison and school building in Kotor-Varos, as well as abuse and beating, which led to the death of some people, in the second half of 1992.

According to the investigations results so far, Tepic, former Chief of the Public Safety Station in Kotor-Varos, and Bojic, former Commander of the Police Station, approved unlawful actions by policemen, who were subordinate to them.

Milan Romanic, Defence attorney of Bojic, said that all of the facts related to Bojic’s responsibility, except for the fact that he was Commander of the Public Safety Station in Kotor-Varos, were disputable.

As indicated by suspect Maksimovic’s Defence, the suspect visited the old prison in order to bring food and drinks to his friends.

“There are no grounds for suspicion, let alone grounded suspicion, in the case of my client,” Defence attorney Nenad Balaban said, objecting to the prohibiting measures.

The Defence of Kurusic considers that its client was most probably mixed up with somebody else, because he was not a member of the police in Kotor-Varos.

Judge Darko Samardzic said that a decision concerning the custody order motion and prohibiting measures would be rendered soon.