Bosnian Terrorism Convict Arrested for Robbery
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Tužiteljstvo Kantona Sarajevo. Foto: BIRN BiH
The Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry said in a statement that three people are suspected of having robbed a petrol station attendant in Srednje.
They are suspected of “taking a certain amount of money at gunpoint and leaving the site in a passenger motor vehicle in the direction of Semizovac”.
The vehicle was stopped in Semizovac, where they were arrested.
During a search of the car, “a certain amount of money, a 9mm EKOL P29 gas pistol and a cap were found and confiscated”, police said.
“The people who were arrested were handed over to an assigned prosecutor from the Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecution yesterday [Tuesday],” Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry spokesperson Mirza Hadziabdic told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecution confirmed that suspects Almir Dzinic, Abaz Sadikovic and Esad Hasanbasic had been brought in front of the prosecutor.
The Bosnian state court sentenced Dzinic to one year in prison in 2016 for participating in the Syrian conflict, on the basis of a plea agreement.
According to the charges, in late 2013 Dzinic travelled with his family to Turkey and then to Syria, where he joined so-called Islamic State’s paramilitary units.
He participated in the conflict in Syria until July 2016, the prosecution alleged.
Explaining its decision to accept the plea agreement, the court said there were “specific circumstances of the case which exhibit the features of particularly mitigating circumstances”.
“The court attached particular value to the fact that the defendant was taken to Syria in 2013 as a minor, that he fled the battlefield, admitted having participated in Islamic State terrorist units and expressed sincere remorse,” the court explained.
