Kapic: Criminal Code Violations

Due to substantial violations of the Criminal Code provisions and wrongly and incompletely determined factual status, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has called upon the Appellate Chamber to revoke the fist instance verdict of release pronounced against Suad Kapic for crimes committed in the Sanski Most area.

The Defence said that the Prosecution’s appeals were “ungrounded”, asking for confirmation of the first instance verdict.

The Trial Chamber will render its decision at a later stage.

In late June 2008 the Court acquitted Suad ‘Hodza’ Kapic, former member of the Third Battalion with the 517th Cazin Brigade of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, of the charges alleging that, in September 1995, he participated in the capture of six members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, in Sanski Most municipality, and killed three and wounded one of them.

The Prosecution filed the indictment against Kapic in October 2007. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed it later that month. The trial began in January 2008.