New Saric Trial Begins September 23

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, and Defence said that they did not have any new pieces of evidence that they would like to present during Goran Saric’s retrial.
 
Prosecutor Marijana Cobovic proposed that a recording of testimonies by 33 witnesses, who appeared during the first instance trial, be heard, but the Defence objected, saying that those were cumulative pieces of evidence about the same circumstances.  
 
“We can achieve the same effect of the trial with the fewer pieces of evidence,” Defence attorney Ozrenka Jaksic said.
 
As far as the determined facts are concerned, both parties agree that the facts accepted by the first instance Chamber on December 3, 2012 should be accepted, as undisputable, by the Appellate Chamber as well.
 
On June 30 the Appellate Chamber of the Court of BiH revoked the first instance verdict under which Goran Saric was sentenced to 14 years in prison for crimes committed in Nahorevo neighbourhood, Sarajevo.  
 
In August last year Saric, former Chief of the Public Safety Station in the Serbian municipality of Centar, was pronounced guilty of having supervised and participated in the separation of three groups of men in Jagomir psychiatric hospital after having been detained in that building on June 19, 1992.  
 
Some of the detainees were sent to the territory controlled by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, 29 were taken to detention camps in Vogosca, while the third group was left at there. Their bodies were found at Skakavac later on.