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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtI spoke to the prosecutor later on about this interrogation and I told himthat the defendant did not have a defence counsellor and that I told him Iwould come later in case he was not willing to present his defence withouta defence counsellor. However, Nikolić told me I did not have to do this becausethe defence was not mandatory for this criminal act.I am saying that Radica Marinković had worked with me for a long timebefore this event. When I was going to interrogate defendant Cvjetan inthe Prokuplje District Prison I left the court building together with RadicaMarinković. Radica went straight to the prison and I told her I was going tolook for an attorney, if I could find anybody. I do not know if it was registeredin some book that I entered the prison building or that I did not enterthe prison building. They usually did not do this, so I think that nobodyhad ever registered me when I entered or left the building. I do not knowif the defence attorney’s arrival was registered anywhere and he came withme. As far as I can remember, after the interrogation of Cvjetan was over, Ileft the building and went to look for another attorney and Radica stayed inthe prison building waiting for me. I told her to wait until I come back withor without an attorney. I went home after we interrogated another defendantand I do not know where Radica went. I do not remember if she carrieda typing machine, which we usually take from the court into the prisonwhen we have interrogations. I do not remember who was carrying thetyping machine when we were going to the prison. When we are in a hurry,when we have something urgent, I help the court reporter and take hertyping machine. However, this time I was in a hurry looking for an attorneyand also because it was an urgent case, so I do not know who carried themachine on our way to the prison.”The deputy district attorney asked a question and the witness answered:“I issued an order for the autopsy of bodies, but I heard from many competentpeople that we would be killed because there were a lot of Albaniansthere and we would only make the number of victims even greaterthan it was at the moment. After this, I withdrew the autopsy request inorder to save people from being killed. The chief of the State Security toldme that the autopsy should not be conducted because of the safety situation,because Albanians heard about this event and saw it and since some-233