Djelilovic et al: Suspects Ordered Custody
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According to the decision of the State Court, the custody for Mustafa Djlilovic, Fadil Covic, Mirsad Sabic, Nezir Kazic, Becir Hujic, Halid Covic, Serf Mesanovic and Nermin Kalember may last until 22 December 2011.
“The Court determined that there is reasonable suspicion that the suspects committed the crimes for which they are suspected. Detention in respect of all the suspects is determined due to the specific concerns that the suspects, if they found themselves at liberty, might interfere criminal procedure by influencing witnesses, accomplices or hiders”, it is stated in decision of the Court.
Mustafa Djelilovic, Fadil Covic, Mirsad Sabic, Nezir Kazic, Becir Hujic, Halid Covic, Serif Mesanovic and Nermin Kalember are suspected for the criminal offence of war crimes against the civilian population and for the criminal offence of war crimes against prisoners of war.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina suspects Djelilovic, as President of the Municipality of Hadžići and President of the Crisis Committee and wartime Presidency of the municipality, Fadil Covic, as Chief of the Public Safety Station (SJB) Hadzici and Mirsad Sabic, former policeman with the JSB Hadzici, for crimes against civilians and prisoners of war.
Along with them, Nezir Kazic, former Commander of the Ninth Mountain Brigade with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH), Becir Hujic, former Manager of the “Silos” detention camp, Halid Covic and Serif Mesanovic, former Deputy Managers of the detention camp and Nermin Kalemder, former guard in that detention camp, are suspected of the same crimes.
All of them are suspected of crimes against persons of Serb and Croat ethnicity, who were kept in the “Silos” detention camp in Tarcin, as well as the detention facilities in the “9. maj” school building in Pazaric and detention camp in the “Krupa” military barracks warehouse.
The State Prosecutor’s Office considers that in the above mentioned facilities large numbers of civilians and prisoners of war were unlawfully detained, and were subjected to inhumane treatment, torture, intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering, as well as the deprivation of their rights to a fair trial and forced labour, while some people also died.
