One of Glavas's defence attorneys, Ante Madunic, said that after visiting Glavas in the Osijek Clinical Hospital on Wednesday, internist Vladimir Gasparovic and psychiatrist Vera Smalc Folnegovic informed Judge Posavec that Glavas was mentally and physically unfit to follow the proceedings.
"Unlike previous cases, this time the internist too established that Glavas is unfit to follow the proceedings," Madunic told Hina. He added that the doctors had assessed that Glavas's recovery could last at least four weeks on condition he started taking food and medicines immediately.
County Court deputy spokesman Ratko Scekic would not comment on today's hearing, including the doctors' opinion. He added that Judge Posavec would make a decision in the next few days as to whether the investigation would resume or be temporarily suspended.
Parties in the proceedings may appeal against his decision.
The investigation into Glavas in the so-called Garage case, which refers to the murder of civilians in the Osijek National Defence Secretariat in 1991, was launched in June this year. In early December, Judge Posavec had to temporarily suspend the investigation and release Glavas from custody after he had been on a hunger strike for 37 days.
About ten days later, a Zagreb County Court panel of judges granted the prosecution's appeal and quashed Posavec's decision, ordering that he decide again, on the basis of new medical findings, if Glavas was fit to follow the investigation.
Glavas is suspected of ordering the torture and murder of two Serb civilians from Osijek and the torture of another three in 1991. The investigation also covers suspect Krunoslav Fehir, who is defending himself in freedom.