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| Tuesday, 7 January, 2003, 09:16 GMT Lawyers want Bali trials moved ![]() Bali is struggling to recover from the nightclub bombings Lawyers for the Bali bomb suspects have called for the trials to be moved from the island after the second attack in two days on a member of the defence team.
Indonesian authorities hope to start putting suspects on trial as early as next month. But public anger on the island is still running high after the October bombings seriously damaged the island's image and economy. Several Balinese were among the nearly 200 mostly foreign tourists killed in the nightclub bombings.
Defence lawyers said they would ask Justice Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra to move the trial venue to somewhere else in Indonesia. "I was punched by someone who I couldn't see," Mr Marasabessy told El Shintra radio. "Police tried to cover me but I was hit from the side which made me fall. "The trials need to be moved... and be held anywhere but here." Police investigation The chief investigator of the Bali bombing, General I Made Mangku Pastika, has insisted the trial would stay in Denpasar. Mr Marasabessy is defending a suspect called Maskur, who is accused of finding a house to rent for one of the key suspects, Imam Samudra. On Monday, police handed prosecutors a 1,623-page file setting out their case against another key suspect, known as Amrozi.
Under Indonesia's legal system, state prosecutors have two weeks to decide whether the evidence is strong enough to justify taking him to court. Files are being prepared on 14 other suspects. If they are charged under new Indonesian anti-terrorism laws they could face the death penalty under new Indonesian anti-terrorism laws. Elsewhere in Indonesia, police in South Sulawesi province on Tuesday said they had found three training camps believed to be linked to the suspects in a deadly bomb last month at a McDonald's restaurant. Local residents suspect the camps, which are now deserted, were used by suspects in the attacks in Makassar, a police spokesman said. Police have previously said the McDonald's bombers were part of the same network that carried out the Bali attacks. |
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