State Court Says Slavuljica Agreement Needs to Correspond with Indictment

The chamber said the agreement needed to be harmonized with the revised indictment, which was filed by the state prosecution at today’s hearing. The chamber also stated that the revisions referring to the chronology of events needed to be in accordance with Slavuljica’s admission.

The guilt admission agreement was filed with the trial chamber on February 18, 2016, when the proceedings against Slavuljica were separated from the case against five other defendants.

Slavuljica, Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic, Zoran Sljuka and Dragomir Kezunovic have been charged with the murder of 28 civilians. The civilians were allegedly taken from a police station in Teslic and the nearby Pribinic prison to Borje on the night of June 17 or 18, 1992 and killed.

According to the charges, Marjanovic was the commander of the First Squad of military police of the Teslicka Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army. The other defendants were members of the squad and also members of the military portion of the “Mice” formation.

The chamber will consider the harmonized agreement at the next hearing, scheduled for February 29.