In case of Glavas's inability to arrive at the Zagreb County Court, the defence team will insist that the investigation and witness questioning be held in the prison hospital, according to lawyer Ante Madunic.
Glavas, who went on a hunger strike immediately after he was taken into custody in Zagreb 35 days ago, is still capable of attending hearings of witnesses, according to the opinion of doctors.
The spokesman for the Zagreb County Court, Kresimir Devic, today ruled out a possibility that the questioning of witnesses be relocated from the court to the prison hospital.
The spokesman told the press that all pre-trial proceedings must be carried out on the court premises. Exceptions are possible only when main hearings within a trial begin, which cannot be applied to pre-trial investigative hearings, Devcic explained.
On Thursday, investigating judge Zdenko Posavec interviewed five witnesses and one forensic expert Davor Stirinovic, in Glavas's presence in a courtroom.
The forensic expert said that a victim, Osijek Serb Cedomir Vuckovic, whose murder Glavas had ordered according to the prosecution's charges, had died only of consequences of his having drunk sulphur acid. The victim was forced to drink the lethal liquid from a car battery.
Glavas's lawyer Madunic believes that the expert's testimony negated a part of a statement of the other suspect in this case, Krunoslav Fehir. Fehir said he had received the orders from Glavas regarding Vickovic's murder.
"This (the expert's statement) rules out a possibility to forgive Fehir and consequently to enable him to turn the state evidence," Madunic said.
The investigation will resume tomorrow. The defence plans to call another 11 witnesses.
Apart from the Vuckovic case, the prosecution alleges that Glavas is also held responsible for the torture and murder of Djordje Petkovic and for the torture of three more local Serbs in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991.
Fehir, who admitted to the crimes and claimed that it was Glavas who ordered the atrocities, has been granted provisional release pending completion of the investigation.