RIJEKA, July 4 (Hina) - A witness in the trial of the so-called Gospic Group, Fatima Skula, on Thursday arrived in the court in the Croatian seaport of Rijeka, escorted by police, as she had failed to respond to the first writ of
summons, giving no explanation for her non-appearance.
RIJEKA, July 4 (Hina) - A witness in the trial of the so-called
Gospic Group, Fatima Skula, on Thursday arrived in the court in the
Croatian seaport of Rijeka, escorted by police, as she had failed to
respond to the first writ of summons, giving no explanation for her
non-appearance. #L#
Mrs. Skula, a member of an intervention squad and housekeeper in the
crisis committee for Lika in 1991 who arrived in Gospic from Bosnia
in 1989, said she could remember nothing from that period while she
was giving her testimony before the trial chamber chaired by Judge
Ika Saric.
The witness claimed she had problems with memory and suffered from
mental problems. She added that her psychiatrist recommended the
hospital treatment for her.
Skula denied that she had given an interview with the Globus weekly
a few years ago. She said in the contentious interview that there
were tortures and murders in the crisis committee and that the
defendant Tihomir Oreskovic had obtained girls under age for the
forced prostitution.
On Thursday, the witness said there was no grain of truth in that
article.
On Friday, another witness, a former head of the crisis committee
for Gospic, Drazen Jurkovic will testify in the trial.
(hina) ms sb