"Prosecutor Kvakan will head the team, which also includes two prosecutors from the Zagreb County Prosecutor's Office," the spokeswoman for the Chief State Prosecutor's Office, Martina Mihordin, told Hina. She would not disclose the names of the two prosecutors.
Officials at the Chief State Prosecutor's Office, whose senior officials are attending an annual conference of state prosecutors at Brijuni, could not say when Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic would suggest to Supreme Court president Branko Hrvatin which county court should conduct the trial of Ademi and Norac.
According to claims in Jutarnji List daily, which the spokeswoman for the Chief State Prosecutor's Office did not deny, after the prosecution studies the file, which reportedly contains 12,000 documents, the Hague indictment will be adjusted to Croatian judicial standards. This will particularly refer to the issue of command responsibility and, if necessary, to the reintroduction of some evidence collected by the Hague prosecution. This does not mean that an investigation will be opened before a Croatian court, Jutarnji List said.
The date of the trial is not yet known, but some media have speculated that it could start at the end of March next year at one of the four county courts conducting war crimes trials.
Ademi and Norac are charged with crimes against humanity and three counts of violations of the laws and customs of war committed against Serb civilians and their property during Operation "Medak Pocket" from 9 to 17 September 1993.
The Hague tribunal referred the case to Croatia in mid-September this year and the case was officially transferred two days ago.