The trial for the murder of Nacional weekly co-owner Ivo Pukanic and his business associate Niko Franjic resumed at Zagreb's County Court on Monday with the testimonies of two witnesses.
Pukanic and Franjic were killed by a bomb planted in Nacional's car park in downtown Zagreb on October 23, 2008.
One witness was Boro Ribic, an employee of AMC Rent-a-Car in Vukovarska Street in Zagreb, where first defendant Robert Matanic twice rented cars in the summer of 2008, while the other witness was Gordan Tomsic, the owner of a construction company in which second defendant Luka Matanic worked as an excavator operator.
Tomsic said he did not notice any changes in his employee's behaviour the day after the murder, adding he went to the construction site and did his job.
Mijo Zuljevic is due to take the stand later today.
Under the indictment, the two Matanic cousins, Amir Mafalani, Zeljko Milovanovic, Bojan Guduric and Slobodan Djurovic are charged with joining an international criminal organisation which killed Pukanic, and Franjic as a collateral victim, and which planned the murder of another two persons in the Zagreb area.
Guduric and Milovanovic are not in the dock. Guduric is in a Sarajevo prison awaiting extradition, while Milovanovic is in custody in Belgrade, where he should be tried for the murder of Pukanic and Franjic alongside Milenko Kuzmanovic and Sreten Jocic, the man who allegedly paid EUR 1.5 million for Pukanic's murder.
