A request for suspending the investigation was filed on December 4 by the attorneys of independent member of parliament Branimir Glavas, and Judge Kovac decided to grant their request based on a report submitted by medical experts.
Explaining Kovac's decision, Rozac said the team of doctors informed the judge in writing on December 6 that Glavas was unfit to attend hearings and explained their conclusions at a December 11 hearing. Their findings were that the suspect was unfit for trial, both physically and mentally, because of a grave medical condition caused by a 37-day hunger strike while in detention in Zagreb.
On January 6 the doctors will re-examine Glavas and decide if he remains unfit for trial or if something has changed in the meantime.
Before deciding to suspend the investigation, Judge Kovac heard about 70 of a total 90 witnesses envisaged in the Sellotape case.
Kovac's decision may be appealed within three days of receipt of same.
The spokesman for the Osijek County Prosecution, Zvonko Kuharic, told Hina that County Prosecutor Davor Petricevic had just received the decision and would decide whether to appeal upon examining why the investigation was suspended.
Rozac announced the exhumation of two unidentified persons at an Osijek cemetery linked to the Sellotape case, in which Glavas and another six persons are accused of killing Serb civilians on the banks of the Drava river in eastern Croatia in 1991.