The Disciplinary Commission of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HJSC BiH) today suspended the judge of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dalida Burzić, after an investigation was launched against her in the “Dženan Memic” case, it was confirmed to Klix.ba.
She was suspended at the request of the Office of the Disciplinary Prosecutor. In addition to Burzić, who was the chief prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton, on August 31, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina launched an investigation against the former prosecutor of the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office, Meris Ćata, who was the acting prosecutor in the “Memic” case, against the former Commissioner of the Sarajevo Police, Vahid Ćosić, traffic expert witness Ševal Kovačević, Sarajevo policeman Sakib Krema and several celebrities.
They are being investigated for the criminal offense of murder and aiding the perpetrator after the crime.
Several members of the Sarajevo police and the Directorate of Coordination for Police Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina were detained and questioned today as part of the investigation of this case.
The Memic family and their legal representative Ifet Feraget continuously claim that Dženan was killed in 2016 in Ilidža’s Great Alley. In a statement for Klix.ba portal, Feraget pointed out that the only possible solution in this situation is for Burzić to be suspended.
Chronology of the case
We remind you that Memić and Feraget pointed out that the Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton initially investigated this case as a murder, and that they then qualified it as a traffic accident. 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.
Six days earlier, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the indictment against five persons charged by the State Prosecutor’s Office with organized crime in order to cover up the evidence of how Dženan Memic died.
The accused are Alisa Ramić, who was with Dženan when he died, her father Zijad Mutap, members of the MIA of Sarajevo Canton Hasan Dupovac and Josip Barić and the receptionist of the Crystal Hotel, which is located near the place where Dženan was killed, Muamer Ožegović.
Memić and Feraget claim that Ramić and high-ranking individuals in the institutions are concealing the real causes of death. Among the most responsible for this, Burzić is pointed out. 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
