France Extradites Serb War Crimes Suspect to Bosnia
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Radomir Susnjar, alias ‘Lalco’, who is charged with committing crimes against civilians in Visegrad in eastern Bosnia in June 1992, appears in court in Sarajevo on Monday after being extradited from France to Bosnia and Herzegovina the previous day.
He is accused of participating in a war crime in which 57 Bosniak civilians from the village of Koritnik were forcibly detained in a house in Pionirska Street in Visegrad, which was then set on fire.
Susnjar and other Bosnian Serb Army troops and members of paramilitary groups then opened fire at the house to prevent the civilians from escaping.
“The authorities of the Republic of France have complied with the request of the prosecutor’s office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the judiciary of our country, so the indicted Radomir Susnjar, known as Lalco, was extradited from Paris and handed over to the judiciary of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” the Bosnian prosecution said in a statement.
Susnjar had lived in France for many years, and was tracked down in an investigation by the Bosnian prosecution.
AFP news agency reported that he was arrested in France in 2014 then released under court supervision before being arrested again this month in Seine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris.
