The hearing, held before investigating judge Zdenko Posavec, was also attended by suspect Branimir Glavas, who was ordered out of the courtroom before the end of the hearing due to disorderly conduct, court spokesman Kresimir Devcic said.
Devcic did not explain why the judge ordered Glavas out. Glavas was brought to the hearing from the Osijek Prison, where he was placed in custody on April 17 after he and six other persons were indicted in the so-called Sellotape case, which concerns the murder of civilians by the Drava River in Osijek in 1991.
Stating that he could not speak about the content of his statement because the proceedings were confidential, Fehir said that he repeated what he had stated at the time when he was not crown witness, but a suspect.
He went on to say that he and his immediate family had been threatened by some of the witnesses in the proceedings, but that he would fully cooperate with the prosecution.
Fehir believes that Glavas's defence is flimsy and that it was faced with a large amount of material evidence, video recordings and documents that are impossible to challenge.
The mental setup of Glavas and some other people is as it was in 1991, when certain things were done away with hastily, Fehir said.
Asked if he was still employed with the Ministry of the Interior, Fehir answered positively. "If Glavas is receiving his salary as a member of parliament, I see no reason why I should not be working as well," said Fehir, who was given crown witness status at the request of the Chief State Prosecutor in early April.
Because of the change in his status, his previous statement, given in June 2006, could no longer be used in the proceedings, and he had to give a new one.
One of Glavas's attorneys, Drazen Matijevic, also would not comment on the content of today's hearing due to its confidentiality, but he said that giving Fehir crown witness status indicated that the prosecution had no other witnesses against Glavas.
He said that the indictment against his client in the Sellotape case was issued without evidence and that he expected the same to happen in the Garage case.
Court spokesman Kresimir Devcic said that the prosecution had a non-binding deadline of 15 days to decide if it would indict Glavas also in the Garage case, or drop the charges.
Matijevic said that the Supreme Court had still not ruled on the defence team's appeal against the Osijek County Court decision to place Glavas in custody in the Sellotape case.
Supreme Court spokesman Drazen Tripalo told Hina today that the appeal of Glavas's defence had been received and that a court ruling could be released on Friday at the earliest.
The Zagreb County Prosecutor's Office charges Glavas in the Garage case with war crimes against civilians in Osijek in 1991. He is held responsible for the torture of three Serb civilians and murder of another two, one of whom disappeared without a trace.
In a five-hour hearing last June, Fehir admitted to having tortured two prisoners and shot one of them (Cedomir Vuckovic) while he was trying to escape from the yard of the National Defence Secretariat in Osijek.
Fehir was a 16-year-old member of the 1st Osijek Battalion at the time. It was later established that the prisoner died because one of Fehir's colleagues forced him to drink acid from a car battery.
The National Defence Secretariat was at the time headed by Glavas, whom Fehir accused of having ordered the murder of the other prisoner, Djordje Petkovic.