Trial of Slobodan Peković, accused of war crimes, postponed

The president of the special council of judges, Nada Rabrenović, said that the defendant's lawyer, lawyer Ratko Pantović, sent the court a request to postpone the hearing because he is undergoing treatment in Istanbul.

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Illustration, Photo: Boris Pejović
Illustration, Photo: Boris Pejović
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The continuation of the trial of Slobodan Peković, accused of war crimes, was postponed today until December 27 in the High Court in Podgorica.

The president of the special council of judges, Nada Rabrenović, announced at the hearing that the defendant's lawyer, lawyer Ratko Pantović, sent a letter to the court asking for the postponement of the main trial because he is in Istanbul for treatment. Slobodan Peković, born Ćurčić, was accused of war crimes against the civilian population in 1992.

Presenting his defense earlier, the accused said that he did not kill Mujo and Emina Šabanović on June 8, 1992. At the time, he said in the Podgorica High Court that he did not know those persons, and he also denied that he was guilty of raping the victim A1 in September of the same year.

According to the indictment, on June 8, 1992, in a military attack on the village of Hum, which belongs to the Municipality of Foča, Peković killed Muj and Emina Šabanović.

After, according to the indictment, Emina Šabanović said that there were no weapons in the house, Peković hit her on the head several times with a wooden shovel handle, then grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to Mujo Šabanović's house, where he killed them both, shooting at them from automatic weapons.

Their bodies were burned in the fire of Mujo Šabanović's house, which, according to the indictment, was set on fire by Peković.

According to that document, Peković also raped a woman who received the status of a protected witness in early September 1992. It is added that with several other uniformed persons, from the 'Partizan' sports hall in Foča, with the alleged intention of saving them, he took out the protected witness - the victim with her underage daughter and two other people and their five children and took them to an apartment located in near the then SJB in Foča, where a group of soldiers was located. With the threat, Pekovic and another man raped the protected witness, after which they took her out of that room.

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