According to the indictment of Tuzla Prosecutor’s Office, the Tuzla Cantonal Court issued a first-instance verdict of conviction and sentenced Haris Haračić (25) from Teočak to a single long-term prison sentence of 30 years for murder and attempted murder committed in a cruel manner at the end of December 2020 in Teočak.
As a reminder, Haračić was accused of brutally killing Hajrija Džuzdanović on December 23, 2020, and also tried to kill her husband Mujo. The indictment states that Haraćić broke into the family home of an elderly couple in Teočak at around 11 p.m. on the mentioned day, scattered things in the basement and the house, and cruelly inflicted a large number of stab wounds with a sharp object on the spouses, whom he found sleeping and numerous injuries from blows to the head, face and whole body. As a result of her injuries, seventy-three-year-old Hajrija died in the Tuzla University Hospital a few hours after the event, while her husband, seventy-seven-year-old Mujo Džuzdanović, was seriously injured at the time, and he also died two weeks later.
After the announcement of the verdict, the court, at the proposal of the Prosecution, extended Haračić’s detention, the TC Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office announced.