During an evidence hearing at the trial of Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian Nicolae Vintila, the defense argued that evidence presented by the prosecution didn’t prove that the defendants are guilty of war crimes in Sarajevo.
Military expert of defence told the trial for crimes in Sarajevo that defendant Iulian-Nicolae Vintila had no power over conditions in the barracks "Viktor Bubanj", where prisoners were held.
Ramiz Avdovic was not appointed to a function that included any command responsibilities, says a military expert at the trial for crimes committed in Sarajevo.
By interrogating more than 40 witnesses and by presenting more than 200 pieces of material evidence over the last two years, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina argued that Ramiz Avdovic and Iliuan-Nicolae Vintila committed crimes against Serb civilians in Sarajevo.
Testifying on his own behalf, defendant Ramiz Avdovic said he was a guard only for a short period of time in the Viktor Bubanj army barracks, because he was assigned with other jobs, and that he was not even present in the Central Prison in 1992.
As the trial for crimes in Sarajevo continues, State Prosecution witness Senad Kreho says that, upon his arrival to “Viktor Bubanj” military barracks on September 1, 1992, he saw about twenty prisoners, who were detained without a court decision.
At the trial for crimes committed in Sarajevo, the witness for the Prosecution said that he was seeing defendant Ramiz Avdovic inside the Viktor Bubanj army barracks in 1992, but that he did not approach cells in which prisoners were held.
At the trial for crimes committed at the Central Prison and "Viktor Bubanj" army barracks in Sarajevo, the witness for the prosecution said that he took the dead body of his beaten cellmate out in his hands.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in the “Viktor Bubanj” military barracks in Sarajevo, a State Prosecution witness says that guards called indictee Ramiz Avdovic commander, but he does not know what his function was.
At the trial for the crimes in Viktor Bubanj, the former army barracks in Sarajevo, the witness for the prosecution said that the accused Ramiz Avdovic had to admit Serbs into the facility “whom everyone brought in as they pleased”.