"Those testimonies do not carry legal weight in the investigation but may help in accelerating proceedings," Squiccimarro said in the southern Adriatic city of Split, declining to reveal what the witnesses had said.
The Belgrade interviews were conducted on the basis of a cooperation agreement between Croatia's State Prosecutor's Office and Serbia and Montenegro's Prosecutor's Office for War Crimes.
Five former military police have been charged with war crimes against civilians at Lora. They are suspected of mistreating prisoners of war, members of Bosnian Serb troops, between March and August 1992. According to the indictment, three of the 34 prisoners were killed, while seven suffered sever bodily harm, which constitutes violations of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
Of the five suspects, three are in prison (Ante Gudic, Tonci Vrkic, and Andjelko Botic), while two are on the run (Tomislav Duic and Emilio Bangur).