Court Finds Six Year Sentence Against Lipovac Inadequate
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Trial chamber chair Davorin Jukic said the state court considered the verdict too small because two people were killed.
“Considering the fact that two persons, namely Boris Stjepanovic and Boro Markovic, were killed and two more were severely wounded, we consider a sentence of six years to be too short,” Jukic said.
He suggested that the prosecution and defense try to reach a new agreement in the upcoming days, pointing out that a trial would be held otherwise.
The state prosecution has charged Damir Lipovac, a former member of the 103rd Brigade of the Croatian Defense Council, with committing crimes against Serbs in the Derventa area in 1992.
In 2008, he was charged with killing two persons. He was arrested in the Netherlands on May 8, 2014 and extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina in November 2015.
As previously announced by the prosecution, he has also been charged with the assault, theft and torture of detainees held in a detention camp in a school building in Poljari in the municipality of Derventa. The state prosecution alleges that Lipovac was the commander of the detention camp.
The next hearing will be held on February 8.
