The retrial of Ermin Curtic has begun at the cantonal court of Sarajevo. Curtic has been charged with crimes committed in the Vares area in 1993.
The Federation supreme court repealed Ermin Curtic’s prison sentence, and called for a retrial at the cantonal court of Sarajevo.
The defense of Ermin Curtic asked Bosnia’s supreme court to acquit Curtic of charges of war crimes in Vares. The state prosecution asked the court to confirm the first instance verdict against Curtic, which sentenced him to five and a half years in prison.
At the end of the retrial of Ermin Curtic, the Cantonal Prosecution in Sarajevo calls on the Court to sentence him for crimes committed in Vares municipality, while the Defence calls for a verdict of release.
At the retrial of Ermin Curtic, who is charged with crimes in Vares municipality, the Defence gives up the examination of previously-proposed witnesses, because it has not been able to locate them.
During the retrial of Ermin Curtic, who is charged with crimes in Vares municipality, witness Anton Safner says that he saw the indictee on Perun Hill on the day when Stupni Do village was attacked.
The continuation of the trial for crimes in Vares before the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo has been postponed due to the absence of indictee Ermin Curtic.
At the retrial in the case of Ermin Curtic for the crime committed in Stupni Do village, a defence witness stated that he had not seen the accused during the attack.
A former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, testifies in defence of Ermin Curtic, who is charged with crimes committed in Stupni Do, and says that he did not see him in the village in October 1993.