The appeals court upheld the verdict ruling that former soldier Slobodan Grujic was not guilty of participating in the murder of ten Bosniak civilians in Zvornik in 1992.
The State Prosecution presents, before the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its appeal against a verdict under which Slobodan Grujic was acquitted of charges for crimes in Zvornik on February 14, 2013.
The Bosnian state court found fighter Slobodan Grujic not guilty of participating in the murder of ten Bosniak civilians in the north-eastern Zvornik municipality in 1992.
The trial chamber in Sarajevo ruled on Thursday that the prosecution failed to present enough convincing evidence to prove that the defendant, a member of the Baljkovica unit of the Bosnian Serb Army, was an accessory to the murders on May 10, 1992.
During the trial of Slobodan Grujic, a former member of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina tried to prove that he, together with several unidentified people, participated in the arrest and killing of ten Bosniak civilians from the Zvornik area. The Prosecution requested the appropriate punishment.
At the trial of Slobodan Grujic, who is charged with crimes in Bosnjaci, Zvornik in 1992, Defence witnesses speak about the attack on the Serb village of Baljkovica, where they lived.
The trial of Slobodan Grujic, who is charged with crimes in Zvornik, has been postponed due to the absence of a court medicine expert, who was due to present his findings and opinion as per a request by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
State Prosecution witnesses say, at the trial of Slobodan Grujic for crimes in Zvornik, that members of their families were exhumed from Pandurica in 1997, after having been captured by Serb soldiers at that same location in May 1992.
The trial of Slobodan Grujic, charged with the crimes in 1992 in the municipality of Zvornik, began with the reading of the indictment and opening arguments by both the Prosecutions Office and Defence teams.
The trial of Slobodan Grujic, who is charged with war crimes in Zvornik municipality, is due to begin on April 4 this year when the indictment will be read and introductory arguments presented.