ZAGREB, June 24 (Hina) - Croatia's Supreme Court will next week decide on the State Prosecution's request for the transfer of the Lora case trial from Split to some other county court, a Supreme Court senior official, Milan
Petranovic, said on Monday.
ZAGREB, June 24 (Hina) - Croatia's Supreme Court will next week
decide on the State Prosecution's request for the transfer of the
Lora case trial from Split to some other county court, a Supreme
Court senior official, Milan Petranovic, said on Monday. #L#
"The document (about the request) from the Split County Court has
today arrived in the Supreme Court and the case will be delivered to
the competent council in the course of the day," Petranovic told
Hina.
At the request of the Split County Prosecutor's Office, the Chief
State Prosecutor, Mladen Bajic, last week asked for the relocation
of the trial.
According to the prosecutors in the Lora case, the atmosphere
inside and around the Split court is unfavourable due to the
pressure which is being put on the county prosecution and
witnesses. Since the very start, the trial has been marked by
incidents.
If the Supreme Court decide to relocate the case to some other city,
the trial will have to commence from the very beginning.
Until the ruling of the Supreme Court, the main hearing in Split is
adjourned.
Seven of eight defendants, indicted of war crimes they allegedly
committed in the Lora military prison in 1992, are kept in custody,
whereas the eighth suspect is still at large. Those are former
military police officers charged with abuse and killing of some
prisoners in 1992.
(hina) ms