Barriot, a former French lieutenant, said that in the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia, Serbs were not aggressors but that they only defended themselves in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
The witness took pride in his excellent relations with war-time Bosnian Serb leaders, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who are also indicted by the ICTY, and said that according to his conversation with Mladic in September 1995, in Srebrenica "there were not more than 100 executions" of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) prisoners of war in what the witness called the armed conflict, in which 500 Bosnian Serbs and between 1,000 and 1,800 Muslims were killed.
Being irritated by the witness' underestimating the number of the victims of the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica when over 7,000 Muslim men were killed after Serb overran that eastern Bosnian town, the trial chamber's president, Patrick Robinson, suggested ironically that Milosevic could call Ratko Mladic for his witness.