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Humanitarian Law Centerwas quite a number of people on the ground and he, himself, gave first aidto a girl who was still alive. This witness, like Spasoje Vulević, saw a largenumber of the Scorpions member in front of the courtyard.Witness Mitar Dabetić did not go to the crime scene, but he knew thatthere were rumours about some shooting in some building, that some reservistsof the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia had shotpeople. He thinks the rumours were about two or three men, members ofthe Scorpions, who were shooting. He had seen the members of this unit inthe morning when they had arrived in Podujevo and had seen their busesreturning. He said that he knew the whole of the Scorpions unit had beensent back because of the shooting. He had also learned, from the policemenfrom Podujevo that there had been shooting and that the unit wassent back because of this.The court has accepted, fully, the statements of witnesses Spasoje Vulević,Zoran Simović, Predrag Fabijanić and Mitar Dabetić. Witness Vulević andwitness Fabijanić, also, were the first, except for the members of the Scorpions,who had arrived to the crime scene. They, too, like witness Dabetić, leftan impression of telling the true facts they saw or heard at the crime scene,without intention, obviously, of saying something they were not sure of. Besidethe impression of telling the truth, the court judged that these witnessesdid not want to accuse the defendant. Anyway, neither could say whetherhe had seen the defendant at the crime scene - the defendant who, asthey say, they did not know.It was because of this event that witness Simović, the commander of theBelgrade SAJ unit, had ordered the Scorpions to return to Prolom Banja,which they did. Much later, after the army and the police had been pulledout of Kosovo, witness Spasoje Vulević, in his words, heard that the namesof Saša Cvjetan and Dejan Demirović were mentioned in connection withthis event.The statements of said witnesses were corroborated by the statement ofwitness Dragan Marković, a physician of the members of the SAJ unit. Thiswitness, too, in his words, heard a longish volley and, after some five minutes,called by commander Simović, went to the courtyard near the municipalitybuilding. In the courtyard he saw a number of persons lying so he310