The court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) ordered the custody of Adnan Catic, suspected of organizing a terrorist group, that is, of having participated in the foreign battlefields of Syria and Iraq for about ten years, this institution announced.
Suspect Catic, as stated by the Court of BiH in a statement, was ordered to be detained for a period of one month from the day of his arrest or until a new decision of the Court.
This measure was imposed on the suspect due to the risk of escape, the fear that he will destroy, hide evidence or interfere with the criminal proceedings by influencing witnesses, and that he will repeat the crime.
At the hearing where the detention was discussed, prosecutor Dubravko Campara clarified that Catic, after almost ten years of participating in foreign battlefields, returned from Turkey to BiHwith an expired travel document and passport, and was detained at the airport on November 17th.
His defense attorney, Senad Dupovac, said at the time that the evidence indicated that Catic was not in the fighting, but was working in an elementary school in Syria, and requested measures prohibiting him from leaving his residence and being checked by the police twice a day.
Catic is under investigation by the BiH Prosecutor’s Office due to suspicion that he participated in the foreign battlefields of Syria and Iraq, where he was in the structures of the so-called ISIL, Detektor reports.
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