Trial against Dušan Čučković, charged with a war crime against civilians referred to in Article 120, paragraph 1 of the OKZRH.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Vukovar County Court

Case file number: K-22/00

War Crimes Council (judges' panel): judge Nevenka Zeko, Council President; judge Jadranka Kurbel, Council Member; lay judges Joso Lesar, Božo Martinović and Martin Nedeljković, Council Members

Indictment: no. DO-K-1/00 of 3 July 2000, issued by the Vukovar ŽDO, amended at the main hearing held on 8 November 2000

Criminal offence: war crime against civilians referred to in Article 120, paragraph 1 of the OKZRH

Defendant: Dušan Čučković, available

Defence Counsel: Vlatko Vidaković, lawyer practicing in Osijek

Victims - killed: Vlado Petrik and two unidentified persons

VERDICT (SUMMARY)

On 8 November 2000, the Vukovar County Court pronounced the verdict in which the defendant Čučković was found guilty as charged that in his capacity as paramilitary formation member at the „Velepromet“ grounds on 20 November 1991 where non-Serb ethnicity civilians were forcefully detained, he shot dead by firearms Vlado Petrik and two more unidentified persons.

The defendant was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The Vukovar County Court's Verdict is available in Croatian  here.

On 14 February 2002, the Supreme Court of the Republic of dismissed the appeal lodged by defendant Čučković and confirmed the judgment of the court of first instance.

The VSRH Verdict No. I Kž-149/01-6 is available in Croatian here.