Glavaš guilty, sentenced to 10 years

A court in Zagreb has sentenced Branimir Glavaš to 10 years in prison for war crimes in Osijek.

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Friday, 08.05.2009.

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A court in Zagreb has sentenced Branimir Glavas to 10 years in prison for war crimes in Osijek. Glavas was not present at today’s hearing. The case in question covers two charges: the murder of at least 10 Serb civilians on the banks of the Drava river in 1991 and 1992; and the incarceration of five and murder of two Serb civilians at the National Defense Secretariat’s HQ, which Glavas, as head of the Osijek defense, commanded at the time. Glavas guilty, sentenced to 10 years The Zagreb District Court found the defendant guilty of command responsibility in both cases, sentencing him to five years for one and eight for other, before integrating them to give a single sentence of ten years. Second accused Ivica Krnjak was sentenced to eight years, Gordana Getos Magdic to seven, and the remaining three defendants—Dino Kontic, Tihomir Valentic and Zdravko Dragic—to five each. While Glavas and Magdic exercised their legal right not to attend sentencing, the other four accused, former members of a local paramilitary force known as the SUS, were in attendance. Glavas and his five co-accused were accused of the arrest, abuse and execution of a number of Serb civilians from Osijek in the early Nineties. According to the indictment issued by the state prosecution, the SUS members carried out the executions on Glavas’s orders. Initially, the two cases—known as the “sellotape“ and “garage“ cases—were tried separately, before being integrated several months later. In October, the court ordered the trial to begin from scratch for procedural reasons. In the “garage“ case, Glavas was accused of ordering the murder, torture and execution of a group of Serb civilians, including Cedomir Vuckovic and Djordje Petrovic, who were executed in a garage on the Secretariat’s grounds. In the “sellotape“ case, the other five accused were charged with arresting Serb civilians around Osijek on Glavas’s orders, taking them down to the banks of the Drava, where they were shot and their bodies thrown into the river. All the corpses were found with their hands tied and their mouths covered with sellotape. Branimir Glavas (FoNet, archive)

Glavaš guilty, sentenced to 10 years

The Zagreb District Court found the defendant guilty of command responsibility in both cases, sentencing him to five years for one and eight for other, before integrating them to give a single sentence of ten years.

Second accused Ivica Krnjak was sentenced to eight years, Gordana Getoš Magdić to seven, and the remaining three defendants—Dino Kontić, Tihomir Valentić and Zdravko Dragić—to five each.

While Glavaš and Magdić exercised their legal right not to attend sentencing, the other four accused, former members of a local paramilitary force known as the SUS, were in attendance.

Glavaš and his five co-accused were accused of the arrest, abuse and execution of a number of Serb civilians from Osijek in the early Nineties.

According to the indictment issued by the state prosecution, the SUS members carried out the executions on Glavaš’s orders.

Initially, the two cases—known as the “sellotape“ and “garage“ cases—were tried separately, before being integrated several months later. In October, the court ordered the trial to begin from scratch for procedural reasons.

In the “garage“ case, Glavaš was accused of ordering the murder, torture and execution of a group of Serb civilians, including Čedomir Vučković and Đorđe Petrović, who were executed in a garage on the Secretariat’s grounds.

In the “sellotape“ case, the other five accused were charged with arresting Serb civilians around Osijek on Glavaš’s orders, taking them down to the banks of the Drava, where they were shot and their bodies thrown into the river. All the corpses were found with their hands tied and their mouths covered with sellotape.

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