The retrial of an Austrian citizen charged with wartime crimes in the Sarajevo area in 1992 was postponed on Wednesday after the defendant failed to appear in the courtroom.
A summons was issued for Mladen Milanovic via a system of international legal cooperation, said Zorica Gogala, chairman of the Trial Chamber at the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But, she said, the court did not know if Milanovic had received the summons.
She added that a new hearing would be scheduled after the court receives information on whether Milanovic was handed the summons.
Refik Serdarevic, Milanovic's lawyer, said his client had told him last week that he had not received the summons.
The Cantonal Court in Sarajevo acquitted Milanovic in November 2008 on charges that as a guard in the Bunker camp in Semizovac, in the Vogosca municipality, he beat up a Bosniak prisoner and allowed Serb soldiers and paramilitary troops to enter the camp and abuse civilians.
That verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 2011 and a retrial was ordered.
Milanovic, who has Austrian citizenship, was arrested in July 2007. But he was released after being acquitted at his original trial.
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