A ballistics expert testifying in Ratko Mladic’s defence denied that a bullet that killed a seven-year-old boy and wounded his mother in Sarajevo in 1994 was fired from Serb positions.
A defence ballistics expert told Ratko Mladic’s trial that the Bosnian Serb Army did not carry out sniper attacks on Sarajevo in 1994, accusing Bosniak forces of being responsible for the shootings.
Testifying in defense of Ratko Mladic, ballistics expert Mile Poparic said the Bosnian Serb Army couldn’t have been responsible for Sarajevo sniper attacks listed in the indictment.
The presentation of evidence at the Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian-Nicolae Vintila trial concluded with a revision of the state prosecution’s indictment. Avdovic and Vintila have been charged with war crimes in the Sarajevo area.
The Mario Frimel trial has been postponed because defense witnesses failed to appear in court. Frimel has been charged with war crimes in Sarajevo at the cantonal court of Sarajevo.
Following the presentation of closing statements by the prosecution and the defense, the cantonal court of Sarajevo scheduled the verdict in the Predrag Djurovic case for October 30. Djurovic has been charged with wartime rape in the Vraca neighbourhood of Sarajevo.
The cantonal prosecution of Sarajevo revised the indictment against Goran Sladoje and Slobodan Bogdanovic, who’ve been charged with war crimes in the Sarajevo area.
Zaim Lalicic’s defense asked the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court to repeal the verdict against him or hand down an acquittal. The state prosecution objected to this proposal. Lalicic was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes committed in the Hrasnica neighbourhood of Sarajevo.
Bosnia and Herzegovina will fail to resolve the most sensitive war crimes cases by its December 2015 deadline and may not tackle the thousands of remaining cases by the final deadline of 2023.