Prosecutor Requests Referral of Milanko Devic Case to Serbia
This post is also available in: Bosnian
Devic’s defense attorney, Marinko Brkic, said his client told him just before the hearing that he needed to celebrate a family’s patron saint day and wouldn’t be able to appear in court.
Cantonal prosecutor Jasmin Mesic proposed that the case be referred to judicial bodies in Serbia. The court will render a decision concerning this proposal at a later stage.
According to prosecution, Brkic has Serbian citizenship and almost never visits Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Devic, a former member of the Bosnian Serb Army, has been charged with participating in the murder of Ismat Sljivar in Donja Sanica in the municipality of Kljuc in mid-July 1992.
Devic allegedly committed the murder in collaboration with Bogdan Sobot and another soldier, and dumped Sljivar’s body into the Sanica River.
