Today, the verdict was pronounced for five defendants in the case “Zijad Mutap and others”, which was conducted before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in connection with the case of the death of Dženan Memic. The defendants were acquitted in the first-instance verdict.
The indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina included Zijad Mutap, then his daughter Alisa Ramić, who was with Dženan on the night of February 2016 when the young man was killed. Among the defendants were Canton Sarajevo Ministry of Interior police officers Hasan Dupovac and Josip Barić and the receptionist of the “Crystal” hotel Muamer Ožegović.
They were accused of acting as an organized criminal group with the aim of concealing the evidence of the manner in which Dženan Memic received serious, life-threatening injuries that led to his death. Then, as stated by the Prosecutor’s Office, by concealing the evidence and the perpetrators, faking the evidence, concealing the facts known to them, they took actions with the aim of concealing the real way in which Memic received severe, life-threatening injuries.
The trial lasted a little longer than a year, and a large number of witnesses were called, many of whom were protected witnesses, and who revealed previously unknown details.
On February 8, 2016, Dženan Memic suffered life-threatening injuries in Velika Alley in Iliža, from which he died seven days later in the hospital. The family has been claiming for almost seven years that Dženan was murdered and citing numerous illogicalities in earlier court proceedings and investigative actions. Alisa Ramić ( Mutap) claims that she does not remember what happened on the fateful night. Because of all this, numerous protests were organized, which the citizens supported to a significant extent.
We would like to remind you that earlier in the case of “Memic” the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina initiated an investigation against several persons for the criminal offense of murder and assisting the perpetrator after the criminal offense. The investigation is being conducted against the former chief cantonal prosecutor in Sarajevo, Dalida Burzić, Meris Ćata, who was acting cantonal prosecutor in the “Memic” case, former Sarajevo police commissioner Vahid Ćosić, traffic expert Ševal Kovačević, and several unknown persons.
Memić family and their legal representative Ifet Feraget claim that Alisa Ramić and high-ranking individuals in the institutions are concealing the real causes of death. Burzić, who was suspended from the position of judge of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina after an investigation was launched against her, is among those most responsible for this.
They also harshly criticize the work of the current chief cantonal prosecutor, Sabina Sarajlija.
Dissatisfaction with the work of the institutions in this case was expressed by protests in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Convinced that Dženan was murdered, they insisted that the judiciary investigate the suffering as a murder. However, the cantonal prosecution treated it as a traffic accident, for which they accused Ljubo and Bekrija Seferović. They were accused of killing Dženan with a van, and then the legal tapestry ensued.
Before the judgments of the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo and the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2017, the ad hoc body of the Assembly of the Canton of Sarajevo determined that, as stated, numerous failures had occurred in the investigation of this case.
Elvedin Okerić, the then president of the Parliamentary Commission for Security and at that time a representative of the ruling SDA, emphasized that the Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton of Sarajevo put pressure on the work of this body. Its formation was initiated by the representative of the then opposition SDP, Segmedina Srna.
The cantonal court acquitted Seferović twice. Both verdicts were annulled by the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then on July 27 of last year, it also delivered an acquittal, Klix.ba reports.
