Courts: Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik
3 July 2015
The cantonal court of Novi Travnik will hand down its verdict in the Josip Maric trial on Wednesday, July 8.
25 June 2015
A protected witness testifying at the Josip Relota trial said the defendant and others killed three of his neighbours in the village of Luka in Busovaca in January 1993.
15 June 2015
Testifying in his own defense before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik, Josip Maric said he wasn’t guilty of war crimes in Kiseljak.
22 May 2015
Milorad Topic, a former member of the Croatian Defense Council from Bugojno, plead not guilty before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik to war crimes committed in the Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje area in 1993.
20 May 2015
A defense witness testifying at the Josip Maric trial said he used to see Maric in the municipality of Kresevo, mid-1993.
19 May 2015
Five defense witnesses described Josip Maric’s wartime functions at the cantonal court in Novi Travnik.
18 May 2015
A defense witness testifying at the Josip Maric trial said he remembered picking up a man who was waving a white handkerchief in the village of Han Ploca in 1993, and taking him to the police station in Kiseljak.
15 May 2015
A cantonal prosecution witness testifying that the Josip Relota trial said she heard someone with the last name Relota had killed the family members of a Zenicatrans employee during the war.
23 April 2015
Testifying at the Josip Maric trial, a protected witness said Maric beat her in her house in the summer of 1993.
14 April 2015
Testifying at the Josip Relota trial, a witness said he heard bursts of gunfire and explosions during an attack on the town of Busovca. The witness said he saw the bodies of his neighbours the next day.
7 April 2015
The cantonal court in Travnik sentenced Bruno Saric, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, to four years in prison for seizing a man who was never seen alive again afterwards.
27 March 2015
The Cantonal prosecution in Travnik requested that Bruno Saric be found guilty of war crimes in Travnik. The defense called for a not guilty verdict. The pronouncement of the verdict is scheduled for April 7.
4 March 2015
The Josip Relota trial began at the cantonal court of Novi Travnik.
3 March 2015
Testifying before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik, prosecution witness Edib Sojtaric said he watched the abduction of his former neighbour Aleksa Kostres with his neighbour’s wife. Sojtaric said Kostres was abducted by Croatian Defence Council members, including the defendant, Bruno Saric.
12 February 2015
At today’s hearing of the Bruno Saric trial at the Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik, defense witnesses said that Aleksa Kostres was abducted by members of the Croatian Defence Council from Herzegovina.