The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
EXHUMATION OF MORTAL REMAINS OF A VICTIM FROM THE PAST WAR CARRIED OUT IN ILIDŽA MUNICIPALITY
03.02.2014. 15:05
The found mortal remains will be transported to the Public Utility Company of ‘City Cemeteries’ in Visoko, where forensic, as well as criminal and technical analysis will be performed and bone samples will be taken for the DNA analysis in order to establish the victim’s identity.
The exhumation process was coordinated in the field by a Legal Officer of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, whereas officers of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, an expert forensic pathologist and police officers of the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of the Interior participated in the process of finding and exhuming mortal remains.
The Prosecutor's Office of BiH, along with institutions involved in the process of tracing missing persons in BiH, continues its activities in the process of conducting exhumations and finding missing persons in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This announcement does not prejudice the outcome of the criminal proceedings and does not violate the principle of the presumption of innocence. A person shall be considered innocent of a crime until guilt has been established by a final verdict (Article 3, paragraph 1 of the CPC BiH).
