RIJEKA, Oct 23 (Hina) - Two witnesses for the prosecution were questioned at the Rijeka County Court on Monday in the trial of Tihomir Oreskovic and four Gospic residents charged with 1991 war crimes against Croatian Serb civilians.
One of the two witnesses was the wife of a Croatian Serb gone missing, a former judge of the Gospic County Court, and the other a police officer who at the time had been patrolling a road intersection when three Serbs, later found dead, had been abducted from Karlobag, a northern Adriatic town. Neither witness testimony charged the defendants in any way, defence attorney Velimir Dosen told reporters after the hearing. The female witness said she had been notified about her husband's disappearance because in 1991 he had been living in Gospic and she in Zagreb. Not even after coming to Gospic was she able to find out whether he had been abducted, by whom, if he had b
RIJEKA, Oct 23 (Hina) - Two witnesses for the prosecution were
questioned at the Rijeka County Court on Monday in the trial of
Tihomir Oreskovic and four Gospic residents charged with 1991 war
crimes against Croatian Serb civilians.
One of the two witnesses was the wife of a Croatian Serb gone
missing, a former judge of the Gospic County Court, and the other a
police officer who at the time had been patrolling a road
intersection when three Serbs, later found dead, had been abducted
from Karlobag, a northern Adriatic town.
Neither witness testimony charged the defendants in any way,
defence attorney Velimir Dosen told reporters after the hearing.
The female witness said she had been notified about her husband's
disappearance because in 1991 he had been living in Gospic and she
in Zagreb. Not even after coming to Gospic was she able to find out
whether he had been abducted, by whom, if he had been buried or if he
was still alive.
Dosen told reporters the police officer said he had only heard about
the abduction of the three Serbs from Karlobag, but did not know who
had done it.
A third witness, a woman, was to be examined today, but was unable to
attend due to illness.
According to the defence attorney, part of the documentation which
was added to the case file last week are official notes of the Gospic
police department and refer only to existing charges. The rest
refers to a 1992 trial Oreskovic stood and is unrelated to the
current one.
The defence appeals to extended detention have not been processed
yet, said Dosen.
The trial resumes on Tuesday with another two witness testimonies.
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