"Glavas is convinced that in the so-called Sellotape case he is a victim of rigged proceedings, which is why he decided to go on hunger strike. In this way, alongside using ordinary legal means, he will prove his innocence," a lawyer for Glavas, Ante Madunic, told Hina on Friday.
Last night the lawyer accompanied his client to the Remetinec detention centre in Zagreb. On Friday he visited Glavas twice and tried to persuade him to abandon his plan to go on hunger strike.
When it became clear to the state leadership and the police and prosecutors that nobody incriminated Glavas and that he will be released in the investigation into the so-called Garage case (or Glavas and Fehir case), which has been conducted for several months, they embarked on the Sellotape case with which Glavas has no connection, Madunic said.
The Zagreb County Court has been conducting investigative proceedings against Glavas and Krunislav Fehir since May this year on suspicion that they committed war crimes against Serb civilians in the eastern city of Osijek in late 1991. The investigation relates to the torture of three civilians and the murder of another two in the autumn of 1991. Fehir, a former member of the First Osijek Battalion which in 1991 was under Glavas's command, previously admitted to having shot a prisoner and testified about Glavas's alleged involvement in crimes against Serb civilians.
On Monday, 23 September, Glavas was stripped of immunity by the relevant parliamentary body due to his suspected involvement in the abduction and execution of Serb civilians on the Drava River bank in late 1991. The Osijek County Court has launched an investigation into six members of the Independent Uskok Company for that crime, which is also known as the Sellotape case.
Lawyer Madunic said today that this was an absurd situation because it was Glavas who insisted at a parliamentary session that light be shed on the killing of civilians on the Drava River bank in Osijek in 1991.
According to the lawyer, Glavas will not give up from the struggle to prove his innocence.