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SITE WITH MORTAL REMAINS OF SEVERAL PERSONS FOUND IN VLAŠIĆ; PROSECUTOR OF PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE COORDINATES FIELD ACTIVITIES
06.06.2020. 15:59
A prosecutor and a legal officer from the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH coordinated the process of preparing and securing the location in order to conduct an exhumation at the Duboka-Duboki potok site on Mount Vlašić.
The remains of Bosniak victims from Večići-Kotor Varoš, who tried to move to Travnik via Vlašić in November 1992, were found in an extremely inaccessible location in a mountainous area.
During the exhumation process, expert demining and alpine teams will be engaged, so that the site can be fully searched.
n addition to the representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, representatives of the Institute for Missing Persons were present at the location, as well as representatives of the surviving victims, and the location is secured by police officers of the RS Ministry of Interior.
The exhumation will continue in the coming period.
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).
