Order for Apprehension of Witness Issued
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Prosecutor Slavica Terzic says that she contacted the witness, who was very rude and irritated by the fact that, as he said, the content of two statements he gave to the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and investigative bodies in Zenica, were leaked to the public.
“He told me that, wherever he goes, everyone speaks about what he said in his statements. He even said that he would sue the Prosecution. I gave his statements, as an attachment to the indictment, to the Defence only,” the Prosecutor explained.
Vukica Marjanovic, Defence attorney of indictee Vehid Subotic, said that she had got the statements, but she had not shared them with anybody or copied them. She said that she does not “want the Defence to be suspected of sharing them.”
Trial Chamber Chairman Zoran Bozic said that he did not intend to undertake an investigation into this issue. He gave an order to apprehend witness D to the next hearing.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina presented 46 pieces of material evidence, saying that it agreed with the Defence on most of them. The evidence included a document, indicating that Vehid Subotic was a member of the Seventh Muslim Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, from October 1992 to February 1994.
It also presented evidence about the state of war and armed conflicts, including regular combat reports by the Seventh Muslim Brigade covering January 26, 1993.
Vehid Subotic is charged with having ordered the murder of four people in Dusina village, near Zenica, in January 1993.
The Defence objected to the relevance of the certain documents, referring to “events that do not fall within the timeframe covered by the indictment,” including the wounding of the indictee four months after the attack on Dusina village.
It also objected to the document, indicating that Subotic was an eyewitness to the death of a certain Elvedin Camdzic in Dusina village on January 26, 1993, claiming that the indictee was not present at the location where the man was killed.
The trial is due to continue on December 18.
