Case No. IT-03-72-I

BEFORE THE CONFIRMING JUDGE

Before:
Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti

Registrar:
Mr Hans Holthuis

Decision of:
17 November 2003

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

MILAN BABIC

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ORDER ON REVIEW OF INDICTMENT

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mrs Carla Del Ponte

 

I, Jean-Claude Antonetti, Judge of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("Tribunal"), in my chambers,

BEING SEISED of the indictment and supporting material filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecutor") on a confidential and ex parte basis on 6 November 2003,

NOTING the pleading entitled "Presentation of an Indictment for Confirmation" submitted on a confidential and ex parte basis on 6 November 2003,

NOTING the additional pleadings filed on a confidential and ex parte basis on 13 November 2003,

HAVING HEARD the Prosecutor on 17 November 2003,

CONSIDERING, on the basis of the documents filed by the Prosecutor, that a prima facie case against MILAN BABIC, in respect of the crimes with which he is charged in the indictment, has been established,

PURSUANT to Article 19 of the Statute of the Tribunal and Rule 47 of the Rules of the Tribunal,

CONFIRM the indictment in respect of each and every count therein.

 

Done in French and English, the French version being authoritative.

Done this seventeenth day of November 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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Jean-Claude Antonetti

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