Judge Barthe first questions, Thaci's defence and Wessel answer: Law predicts security risks can be arrested

Then began hearings with questions that the court might have.

The first to speak was the judge, Christoph Barthe.

“Thoon and you mention a witness who was a Serb police officer, army reserve who had never left the Serbian Army ... I want to know if you're arguing that these individuals were real fighters, or that they were dealing with an armed force, or that this arrest was wrong. I'm talking here about the KLA's right to arrest these people. I want to know what status these individuals had at the moment of arrest?

What I mean is that I'm not able to answer all the incidents you mentioned. 8 members of the Yugoslav Army, for example, constitute the most obvious case ... The second point mentioned is that we will discuss it later, the prosecution has agreed that the KLA had the right to prevent, provided there was no abuse, so it is a clear reason for the detainees of the other party's fighters. As far as status is concerned. Saying there is a fact based, and if that's not what happened and they've been arrested again, that doesn't mean that”, attorney Luka Mistic said.

And the prosecution's statement.

We've presented all the facts and said nothing to add”, the Prosecutor Pace's File.

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Maybe we could start on humanitarian law on the basis of the treaty... In the pretrial phase under Yugoslav law, a thing is released when the ZPS came and said that we don't object to this, and that it's a matter that we've taken off the negotiating table, in conversation with the SPS, and Judge Smith has asked him whether or not you object to the right to detain and he said no. According to us, there was reason to be imprisoned there was a basis under internal law and we had no notice that this case would be discussed now”, said attorney Mistic, broadcast the news.net, follows. Periscope.

I need to ask Wessel's defense, for the imprisonment of eight Yugoslav soldiers?

After that Rodney Dixon is answering Special Court questions.

He was asked about arrests allegedly carrying out former Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers.

As the lawyer pointed out, the international right to armed military conflicts envisions that people viewed as security risks could be arrested.

The right “predicts that people who are perceived as a threat to security may be endangered, so we have quoted here even before it became clear where harmful activities in the face of danger or where legitimate reasons can lead to their arrest. If such ones pose a threat to security, they could be detained. So the customary right also known in jurispodsia - when internal armed conflicts - there is no doubt that a person who poses danger can be prevented. ”, said attorney Dixon.

“Could it be applied to non-state actors?”, Barthe continued.

“Yes. It can also apply to both the state and entity in armed internal conflict”, Dixon said.