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INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF TERRORISM
14.01.2019. 14:58
A prosecutor from the Section for Terrorism within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH filed an indictment against:
- Munib Ahmetspahić, aka ‘Abu Dawud’, ‘Osman’ and ‘Mugira’, born in 1990 in Zenica.
The Accused is charged that he was in the territory of Syria and Iraq on two occasions in the period between 2013 and 2018 with the aim of joining terrorist organisations, where he joined the paramilitary formations ‘ISIL’, ‘Jabhet al-Nusra’, ‘Al- Nusrah Front’, which the UN Security Council declared terrorist organisations.
The Accused is charged with joining the terrorist organisations and taking part in combat and terrorist activities during which he was seriously wounded in the territory of Syria.
An investigation against the accused was conducted within the case code-named ‘Damascus’ carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the partner police and security agencies in BiH and abroad.
The Accused is charged with the criminal offence of Organising a Terrorist Group referred to in Article 202d (2), all in conjunction with the criminal offence of Terrorism referred to in Article 201 of the Criminal Code of BiH.
A motion to extend custody was sent to the Court of BiH along with the indictment.
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).
