Franko Simatović

At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a witness said he and other Croat civilians were used as human shields during an attack on a village in 1991.

The defence lawyer for former Serbian security official Franko Simatovic claimed that the Yugoslav People’s Army led by then colonel Ratko Mladic was responsible for crimes during an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.

A prosecution witness told the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serb fighters killed 75 people, mostly civilians, during an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.

Despite the claims of a protected witness, the defence for former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic has insisted he did not command Serbian units that committed crimes against Croats in the autumn of 1991.

The defence for the former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic claimed that a key witness 'fabricated his testimony' concerning Simatovic's alleged role in fuelling the war in Croatia, which the witness denied.

The defence for the former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic dismissed testimony given by a witness who said Simatovic delivered arms to the Croatian Serbs in 1990.

The retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, two former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, for crimes in Croatia and Bosnia continues on Tuesday.

The UN court granted temporary release for the summer recess to former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who are being retried for war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A prosecution witness at UN war crimes court accused former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic of delivering weapons to rebel Serbs in the Krajina area of Croatia in 1991.

At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, a prosecution witness said Serb police robbed and killed Croats in an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.