The State Prosecutor’s Office requested the custody of Mirza Kapić, suspected of terrorism, due to the danger that he could obstruct the investigation, conceal evidence, influence witnesses and accomplices and commit the crime again or complete it, while the Defense opposed this proposal.
At the hearing held in the Court of BiH, prosecutor Dubravko Čampara said that the Prosecution received information that there was a threat of a terrorist attack, which was discussed in online communication, and after that a search was carried out and items were seized.
“It is important to us with whom Mirza Kapić communicated, who are these people”, said Campara and clarified that this is the first phase of the investigation.
Clarifying the reasons for the detention, Prosecutor Campara said, among other things, that the Prosecution assumes that there is another unknown person with whom the suspect cooperated in connection with the components of the explosive device.
He also noted that Kapić is a returnee from Syria, for which he was prosecuted, as well as for illegal possession of weapons, and that there is a fear that “catastrophic consequences may occur”.
The Prosecution informed the Court, the suspect and his defense that it plans to open the confiscated items today, in order to speed up the process itself.
Substitute lawyer Sanela Kožo objected to the Prosecution’s proposal, asking the Court to impose a measure prohibiting Kapić from communicating with certain persons, which the Prosecution opposed, reports BIRN BiH.
Kapić is suspected of contacting members of the radical structures of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL) and planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“The suspect is under investigation and is accused of having been in contact with people who support radical movements and supporter structures of the so-called ‘ISIL’ in the past month – through electronic communication channels, mobile phones and computers, using communication applications – and is in correspondence expressed his desire to carry out an explosive attack on a mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of July this year”, according to an earlier statement by the Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, he asked the aforementioned persons for instructions for the production of an explosive device with a detonator via a mobile phone, expressing his intention to attack scholars of the Islamic Community who publish proclamations against the Mujahideen and report supporters of radical movements and ISIL to law enforcement agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kapić was previously sentenced to a single sentence of one year and ten months for waging war in Syria and illegal possession of weapons.
The court will make a decision on the proposals of the Prosecution and the Defense within the deadline provided by law.
