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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtdate they received the documents even though they received them a coupleof days later. Investigative judge Mijat Bajović’s case files were storedin a metal locker and the only persons who had the keys to this locker werehim and me. So, I do not know how this signature appeared on this note ofdelivery. As I have already explained sometimes the decisions were writteneven before the detainees were interrogated. In these situations, I was preparingthe decisions along with the notes of delivery addressed to the PrisonAdministration Department, the defendant, and the defence attorney.The judge told me he would be present. I cannot remember if this was thecase with this interrogation. It is possible that Judge Bajović told me evenbefore we came to the prison building to put attorney Dragutin Stanković’spersonal details in the form as the defence attorney.I want to remind you that I wrote the fee invoice for Attorney Šubaranovićand the judge told me to write it for attorney Stanković, as well. When I toldhim that attorney Stanković was not present and asked him why I was writinga decision for him, he said, ‘Roo, I am the judge here and you have towrite what I tell you to write’.”A member of the trial panel asked a question and the witness said:“Judge Mijat Bajović interrogated the defendants by giving them the investigationopening request and saying, ‘Read the charges against you’. Afterthis, the judge would take the criminal complaint and a pen, he would underlinethe sentences in the criminal complaint and say, ‘You said this hereand you said this here. Was it like this?’ During all this time the defendantwould not say a thing. After this, the judge would say, ‘Sign here and youare free to go’. As for the interrogation of Cvjetan, I took the investigationopening request and the rest of the documents to the court building. Whendefendant Cvjetan was brought, investigative judge Mijat Bajović gave himthe investigation opening request and told him to read the charges againsthim. After this, the judge took the criminal complaint and started underlining.At the same time he was asking the defendant if he said that. When thedefendant said, ‘It was not like that, judge’, the judge would say that it wasthe same and things written in the criminal complaint were mainly copiedto the record. It does not mean that the defendant did not say anything. Hedid speak; I just cannot remember what he was saying. I do not rememberif the defendant signed the record because I know that after the interrogationwas over the judge got up in a hurry. The judge signed it, but I cannot251