ZADAR COUNTY COURT ACQUITS SERB RETURNEE OF WAR CRIMES CHARGES ZADAR, Feb 2 (Hina) - Croatian Serb returnee Savo Grulovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the county court in the central Adriatic port of Zadar on Friday. Judge
Milivoj Lasan said there was no evidence to corroborate the charges, and that the court should prove the defendant's guilt and not the defendant his innocence. The 68-year-old Grulovic was given a final, five-year imprisonment sentence in 1996. He was convicted by the Zadar County Court. The verdict was confirmed by the Croatian Supreme Court. Grulovic had been tried in absentia. He was arrested late last year, upon his return to Croatia. He exerted the legal possibility of a retrial, which resulted in his acquittal today. The charges against Grulovic were based on a report filed by the late Marinko Jermen, a Croatian policeman from Zemunik, who claimed that Grulovic had tortured him during his detention at Zemunik's air base i
ZADAR, Feb 2 (Hina) - Croatian Serb returnee Savo Grulovic was
acquitted of war crimes charges by the county court in the central
Adriatic port of Zadar on Friday.
Judge Milivoj Lasan said there was no evidence to corroborate the
charges, and that the court should prove the defendant's guilt and
not the defendant his innocence.
The 68-year-old Grulovic was given a final, five-year imprisonment
sentence in 1996. He was convicted by the Zadar County Court. The
verdict was confirmed by the Croatian Supreme Court. Grulovic had
been tried in absentia. He was arrested late last year, upon his
return to Croatia. He exerted the legal possibility of a retrial,
which resulted in his acquittal today.
The charges against Grulovic were based on a report filed by the
late Marinko Jermen, a Croatian policeman from Zemunik, who claimed
that Grulovic had tortured him during his detention at Zemunik's
air base in 1991.
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