Tuzla Column trial resumes

The court in the Tuzla Column trial has turned down a defense motion for accused Ilija Jurišić to be released on bail.

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The court in the Tuzla Column trial has turned down a defense motion for accused Ilija Jurisic to be released on bail. Jurisic is charged with participating in the attack on Yugoslav National Army (JNA) soldiers in 1992. Tuzla Column trial resumes As the trial before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber resumed, the Trial Chamber rejected the defense motion, stating that there were stillgood reasons to keep him in custody. The Chamber did, however, adopt a second defense motion for footage of an interview with one-time Tuzla Police Chief Mehmed Bajric from 2006 to be entered into evidence. In the interview, Bajric says that he ordered Jurisic on May 15 to convey his orders to “return fire with fire”. Zoran Vukojevic and Slobodan Radic, former reservists who survived the attack on the JNA column, testified at yesterday’s hearing,. They said that the JNA had been attacked after the second attempt to leave the barracks and that the drivers had come under fire first, and then the rest of the troops. Witnesses claimed that explosions could be heard later. Jurisic, who was a member of the Bosnian Interior Ministry police reserves and a senior officer in the Public Security Service operational HQ, is accused of giving the order to open fire on the JNA column, when at least 92 soldiers were killed, 33 were wounded, and several JNA vehicles were destroyed. On the basis of that command, snipers in nearby buildings first shot and killed the drivers of the military vehicles, thus stopping the vehicles and blocking the way for the rest of the column. They then shot at and killed the soldiers in those vehicles, who had not been prepared to fight or resist attack, the indictment states. The trial continues on October 9 and 10.

Tuzla Column trial resumes

As the trial before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber resumed, the Trial Chamber rejected the defense motion, stating that there were stillgood reasons to keep him in custody.

The Chamber did, however, adopt a second defense motion for footage of an interview with one-time Tuzla Police Chief Mehmed Bajrić from 2006 to be entered into evidence.

In the interview, Bajrić says that he ordered Jurišić on May 15 to convey his orders to “return fire with fire”.

Zoran Vukojević and Slobodan Radić, former reservists who survived the attack on the JNA column, testified at yesterday’s hearing,.

They said that the JNA had been attacked after the second attempt to leave the barracks and that the drivers had come under fire first, and then the rest of the troops. Witnesses claimed that explosions could be heard later.

Jurišić, who was a member of the Bosnian Interior Ministry police reserves and a senior officer in the Public Security Service operational HQ, is accused of giving the order to open fire on the JNA column, when at least 92 soldiers were killed, 33 were wounded, and several JNA vehicles were destroyed.

On the basis of that command, snipers in nearby buildings first shot and killed the drivers of the military vehicles, thus stopping the vehicles and blocking the way for the rest of the column. They then shot at and killed the soldiers in those vehicles, who had not been prepared to fight or resist attack, the indictment states.

The trial continues on October 9 and 10.

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