PROHIBITING MEASURES PROPOSED FOR SUSPECTS OF WAR CRIMES COMMITTED IN THE TERRITORY OF BOSANSKA KRUPA

Prosecutor of the Special Department of War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has put forward a Motion with the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina seeking that prohibiting measures be ordered against the four (4) persons with the following initials: Š. J. (1958), T. H. F. (1958), Š. S. (1970) and K. Z. (1976), who are suspected of war crimes.

These persons are police officials who are suspected of committing war crimes against victims of Serb and, in one case, Croat nationality, in 1995, in the territory of Bosanska Krupa. 

The aforementioned suspects were deprived of liberty by authorized police officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the morning of 04 December 2014, upon the order of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and they were subsequently handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the statutory time limit.   

They are subject to investigation due to the grounded suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians, as referred to in Article 173, Paragraph 1, as read with items e), f) and c) and in conjunction with Article 29 and Article 180, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the criminal offense of War Crimes against Prisoners of War, as referred to in Article 175, Paragraph 1, as well as the criminal offense of Unjustified Delay of the Repatriation of Prisoners of War,  as referred to in Article 182 of the same Code.

Having questioned the suspects, the Prosecutor in charge of this case put forward a motion for ordering prohibiting measures against these suspects for grounds as stipulated by Article 126a, items c) and d) of the Criminal Procedure Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or a measure of prohibition from meeting with witnesses of the Prosecutor’s Office and with other cosuspects, as well as an obligation to report to the nearest police station.    

The motion for ordering prohibiting measures was submitted to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.