Bosnian Serb Policeman Acquitted of Intimidation

Djajic was acquitted on Wednesday of intimidating civilian Srecko Klaric at the Ilidza police station on November 1, 1992 by telling him that he must leave his apartment and Bosnian Serb territory because he was a Croat and was facing execution.

After this, Klaric was escorted to an army checkpoint and expelled from Bosnian Serb-controlled territory.

In December 2012, Djajic was found guilty and sentenced to a year and a half in jail by the Sarajevo cantonal court, but appealed to the supreme court of the Bosniak-Croat Federation entity, saying that the facts had not been properly established and the criminal code and procedure had been violated.

The supreme court partially accepted the appeal and ordered his acquittal.

“The factual description of the acts from the appealed verdict contain an indication that the action which Dusko Djajic performed caused fear, insecurity and humiliation with the plaintiff, but it does not contain facts which indicate that the defendant carried out these actions deliberately in order to cause fear, insecurity and humiliation among the civilian population,” the verdict said.

The court concluded that the defendant’s actions as described in the first-instance verdict were not a war crime against the civilian population.