CUSTODY MOTION FOR A POLISH CITIZEN SUSPECTED OF MIGRANT SMUGGLING

Acting in line with his prosecutorial role, a Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH sent a motion to the Court of BiH to order the following suspect into custody:

- Rybicki Patryk Pawel, born in 1991 in Poland, citizen of Poland, deprived of liberty by police officers of the RS Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Station Višegrad.

The aforementioned suspect is under investigation and is charged with having participated in the illegal transfer of a group of 11 migrants, citizens of Syria without identification documents, to BiH in the area of Višegrad, with the aim of acquiring unlawful property gain. The investigation showed that the suspect, following a prior agreement with the persons known to him, took the said migrants right next to the state border between the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina after they had entered the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at a place not intended for crossing the state border, knowing that these persons does not meet the conditions for their legal entry or stay in BiH or in EU countries, and thus acted contrary to the provisions of the Law on Border Control, as well as the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Article 6 of the Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.

The suspect took the migrants into a vehicle with Polish registration number plates, after which he took them in the direction of Sarajevo, in which he was discovered and prevented by the police officers of the RS Ministry of Internal Affairs who stopped the mentioned motor vehicle.

The custody measure was proposed for the reasons described in Article 132 (1), (a) of the Criminal Procedure Code of BiH, that is, because of the risk that the suspect, who is a foreign citizen, will flee and become inaccessible to the judicial institutions of BiH after leaving BiH.

The custody motion was sent to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.