Faris, Alma and Azra. Three young lives were violently ended on the streets of Sarajevo in the last year. The perpetrators were “previously known to the police”.
Nineteen-year-old Faris is the last among them. Five nights ago, twenty-four-year-old Adem Suman shot him dead with a pistol, after a misunderstanding in traffic.
Suman is in custody, as well as two young men accused of helping him after the crime. He has previous convictions, and all three are drug users. The third suspect was under the influence of amphetamines at the time of his arrest, it was said during the detention hearing on February 1st.
It was unofficially found out that Suman did not have a license for weapons. The Prosecutor’s Office of Canton Sarajevo (CS)charges him with “murder in reckless and violent behavior”.
And while the citizens say that they do not feel safe, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) says that “police officers are doing their job well”.
What do the citizens say?
For Amra, the biggest problem is that nothing has changed in the city for years, regardless of the victims.
“Why do we pay so many members of the police? Where are they on the street? Well, now that a murder has happened, now you see the police standing at every intersection. But they are standing. They shouldn’t just stand there, you have to walk, like it used to be. I’m afraid for myself, grandchildren and children. There was the case of Denis Mrnjavac. What has changed from then to today,” she asks.
Statistics on one side, feeling of security on the other
Security expert Sandi Dizdarevic emphasized that statistical data on criminal offenses are “combined and edited” and give a “false image of security”, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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