Acquitted Serb Policeman Sues Bosnia for ‘Suffering’ During Trial

At a preliminary hearing before the Bosnian state court, Radakovic’s lawyer Sinisa Dakic said that the imposition of the order restraining his client’s movements for 199 days had caused him psychological torment as he had a sick wife and his two daughters had died.

Dakic said that “for 199 days [Radakovic] could not visit the place where his daughters were buried or visit his wife”.

The Bosnian state’s legal representative Safija Krestalica rejected the claim.

“We do not see any irregular and unlawful treatment caused by the authorities and people for which the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is responsible,” said Krestalica.

The Bosnian state court last December cleared Radakovic and another Serb, Goran Pejic, of the murders of five members of the Ecimovic family, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

Radakovic and Pejic had been accused of going to the village of Tukovi on June 13, 1992, when one of the defendants allegedly killed three members of the Ecimovic family in one house, then both of them opened fire in a second house, killing two more members of the family.

But the judge said that the only fact determined by the court was that Tomo, Marija, Katarina, Nikola and Cecilija Ecimovic were killed, and that testimony from a witness who said he drove the defendants to the Ecimovic family house and waited for them in the car was insufficient to establish their guilt.