Court Expert Determines Violent Death
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Court expert Miroslav Rakocevic confirmed that he performed an autopsy of the Besirevics, whose bodies were found in a pit, and said that they most probably died due to wounds caused by bullets penetrating their bodies.
The indictment charges Bilbija, former member of the Republika Srpska Army, is charged with having killed Becir and Ismet Besirevic, acting in collaboration with another person, in Bjeline village, Sanski Most municipality, on July 10, 1992 and that they then dumped their bodies into a pit.
Bruno Franjic, court expert in criminal issues, conducted a ballistic examination of a bullet capsule found next to the killed men’s bodies in the pit.
“I have determined that the capsule caliber was 7.62 mm, which matches bullets fired from a Kalashnikov automatic gun or an automatic gun produced in ‘Crvena Zastava’ factory,” Franjic said.
Testifying at this hearing as per a request by the Defence, Rade Bilbija, Nedeljko Milunovic and Ekrem Avdic said that they did not know anything about the murder of Ismet and Becir Besirevic.
The three witnesses said that they had known Slavko Bilbija since their earliest childhood and that, just like most of their neighbours, they did not believe that he could have committed that crime.
The trial is due to continue on July 3.
