The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
EXHUMATION OF A VICTIM KILLED DURING THE PAST WAR CARRIED OUT IN VISOKO
17.06.2014. 14:25
The recovered skeletal remains shall be transported to the ossuary of PUC „Sveti Marko“ East Sarajevo for forensic and criminal investigation processing i.e. determination of the cause of death and collection of DNA samples in order to determine the identity of the victim.
The exhumation process was coordinated by an Investigator of the Special Department for War crimes within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and attended by the representatives of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, a doctor specializing in forensic medicine and Police Officers of PS Visoko.
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, along with other institutions involved in the process of tracing the missing in BiH, continues its activities in the process of tracing and exhuming the remains of the missing in all parts of BiH.
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).
