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Humanitarian Law Centerremember if the defendant signed it. I did not sign the record because thepractice in the Prokuplje District Court was that it was not necessary for thecourt reporter to sign the record. It was not important until I faced this situationand realised how important it actually was. I do not know what wasattached to the criminal complaint we took to the prison.”The deputy district public prosecutor asked a question and the witnessgave the following answer:“Several days after the interrogation, I told Prosecutor Nikolić that JudgeBajović was underlining the criminal complaint and copying it to the interrogationrecord. I told him this because the prosecutor had this issuewith the judge before and told him not to do this, but to let the defendantsspeak. The judge was usually telling him, ‘Well, they are saying the samethings’. The head of the prison chose a room for us to interrogate these defendants.We conducted interrogations in this room very rarely becausewe usually used the next-door room were the prison guards were, I think.The head of the prison did not tell us that there were already some peoplein this room. This room is about ten metres long and some three or fourmetres wide. When you enter this room on the right side, there is an officedesk where Judge Bajović and I sat. Defendant Cvjetan was sitting acrossfrom the judge. Next to this desk, there is a conference table. These peoplein civilian clothes were sitting at the end of this conference table. You enterthis room through a door and right next to this door there is a window.The window overlooks the yard and it has a curtain on. The door also leadsinto the yard. I think the door is made of wood. The court was not relocatedand we were all working. We were allowed to leave the building whenthe air strikes alerts go off, but as soon as the danger was gone, we wereobliged to return to work. We had regular working hours, from 07:00-15:00. I cannot remember when I forwarded the case file.”The injured parties’ representative, attorney Dragoljub Todorović, asked thewitness a question and she answered:“I am not sure that the two men in civilian clothes were from the police. Accordingto their conduct, the nice clothes they wore, and the nice behaviour,I concluded they were not from our town. I did not inform the presidentof the court that the invoice for attorney Stanković’s fee was made252