The policemen who are accused of physically abusing a 14-year-old boy during interrogation have been reported to the police in Zvornik, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The competent prosecutor’s office has also been informed about the case.
This was confirmed yesterday by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republika Srpska (RS). They stated that the report against the policemen was filed by the boy’s father.
In the report filed by the boy’s father, Juso Jusic, it was stated that on August 22nd, the police officers from the town of Osmaci acted illegally when taking a statement from his son, that is, that they physically abused him.
Jusic said that he submitted the report after his son was questioned about “an event in which he was not involved”.
Moreover, the father claimed that on August 22nd he came to the Osmaci police station with his son, after which they were separated, and later he heard the boy’s screams and cries.
“I asked them to let me see him, but they didn’t let me. I heard the policeman cursing at him and saying not to hit the child. I jumped up and found two policemen in a small room pushing him up against the wall,” claims Jusic.
He stated that the boy was then taken away in a police car without his escort.
After the report that was filed against the policemen, the representative of the National Assembly of the RS (NARS), Ramiz Salkic, also spoke out, saying that this case is “proof of the brutality of the RS police against Bosniaks”, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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