The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
AT THE LOCATION OF ZAVINA IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF FOČA AN EXHUMATION WAS COMPLETED BY ORDER OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BIH
30.12.2022. 12:13
An investigator of the Special Department for War Crimes coordinated the work of authorized officials at the extremely inaccessible location of the village of Zavina in the municipality of Foča. Representatives of the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a forensic expert of the International Commission on Missing Persons, and police officers of the Foča Police Department participated in the process of the search for and exhumation of the remains.
The discovery of these remains is the result of the joint work of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the State Investigation and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Foča PD within the operational team for the search for missing persons in 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).
