In the proceedings against the President of the Republika Srpska in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the defense team will call Christian Schmit as a witness, said Goran Bubić, his attorney, during the Telering show on RTRS.
“We will have many questions for him,” Bubić said, emphasizing that the primary goal of the Court and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Schmit, is to remove President Dodik from political life.
He stated that the proceedings against Dodik do not defend the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina but undermine it.
“The indictment is not written only against the President of the Republika Srpska because it also mentions the National Assembly and the Government of the Republika Srpska,” Bubić said.
Discussing the defense strategy, Bubić highlighted that the first thesis is that the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot enact laws, and the second is that Schmit is not the High Representative.
If the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not accept the first two theses, he said, there is a third line of defense, pointing out that the period for which the accused are charged is from July 1 to July 9, and the defense will argue that the relevant period for Dodik is from July 1 to July 7, and that the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by separating the cases post facto, realized that it benefits the president, as he was not present on July 8 and 9.
Regarding the request for the recusal of judge Sena Uzunović, the defense states that she was among 14 prosecutors in April 2021 who demanded unconditional criminal prosecution and the filing of charges against Dodik for an alleged attack on the constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“Therefore, in 2021, she expressed prejudice against the accused by insisting on the criminal prosecution of the accused, because she was then in the capacity of a prosecutor, and she moved to the Court in August 2022. That is our argument,” Bubić said.
Source: RTRS
