ZAGREB, Nov 9 (Hina) - A former police office who shot to death a judge, his wife and her attorney, and wounded a secretary at the Zagreb municipal court last year, said Thursday he did not kill anybody, claiming he had not even been
at the court at the time and was framed. Mato Oraskic, charged with three counts of murder, raising an issue of security in Croatian courts, told the municipal court Thursday he did not understand the indictment and had never been in the chambers of the court. Oraskic was read his depositions from court hearings in June, but he claimed the transcripts contained false information about him being in the court building. When he was shown photographs of his apprehension he asserted he was not in the photographs. The signature on a subpoena to a preliminary divorce hearing of September 22, 1999, is not mine, he said. He also added that his wife's signature on divorce papers was
ZAGREB, Nov 9 (Hina) - A former police office who shot to death a
judge, his wife and her attorney, and wounded a secretary at the
Zagreb municipal court last year, said Thursday he did not kill
anybody, claiming he had not even been at the court at the time and
was framed.
Mato Oraskic, charged with three counts of murder, raising an issue
of security in Croatian courts, told the municipal court Thursday
he did not understand the indictment and had never been in the
chambers of the court.
Oraskic was read his depositions from court hearings in June, but he
claimed the transcripts contained false information about him
being in the court building.
When he was shown photographs of his apprehension he asserted he was
not in the photographs.
The signature on a subpoena to a preliminary divorce hearing of
September 22, 1999, is not mine, he said. He also added that his
wife's signature on divorce papers was not hers.
Oraskic also denied that during his arrest on the border with
Slovenia he had possessed an identification card and passport,
claiming he had lost his ID previously. Asked whether the ID in the
police report was his, Oraskic answered "that is what is written".
He submitted to the court a paper in which he claims he has been
framed "because I know people from UNS and SZUP (secret services)
and police who participated in preparations for assassinations in
Budisa (president of the Croatian Social Democratic Party), Racan
(Prime Minister) and Mesic (Croatian President)."
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