With the direct and cross-examination of prosecution witnesses, the trial of Sava Marinkovic (1983), Aleksandar Macan (1987), and Marko Trifkovic (1987), accused of murdering members of the Canton Sarajevo (CS) Ministry of Internal Affairs – Adis Sehovic and Davor Vujinovic in October 2018, continued in the Canton Court in Sarajevo on February 27th this year.
Witness Emir Mehmedagic, a police officer of the CS Ministry of Internal Affairs – Crime Police Sector and a member of the investigative team, who was engaged in the investigation of the mentioned crime from the very beginning on October 26th, 2018, explained how he at the scene of the incident in the settlement of Alipasino Polje, in Geteova Street, found a large number of police officers and a riddled police vehicle, as well as another vehicle with an open hood.
In direct examination, witness Mehmedagic, responding to prosecutor Aida Topalovic’s questions, recalled that one trace was found at the scene – a wiper blade, which, according to its individual characteristics, is used/installed on a “Seat” car.
He said that he was engaged in questioning witnesses and identifying video surveillance in connection with the scene and the escape of the perpetrators of a serious crime, i.e. the route of their movement, including tracking the signal of an encrypted phone through base stations, whose signal was identified on the spot.
Following the signal of the mentioned phone, the investigators found out that it was registered in the area of Lukavica and Sumbulovac, and on two occasions in the area of Grude, on October 19th and November 19th, 2018, where the accused stayed with Miroslav Cepa (accused in the “Volan” case and heard as a witness).
The signal of the encrypted phone, which was registered at the scene of the murder of the Sarajevo policemen, was registered on January 1st, 2019 in Lukavica, where Milos Ostojic was killed, and where the first accused Marinkovic, who had good relations with the Ostojic family, headed from the direction of Pale.
Since it was a phone that uses the Sky/Anom application, the witness recalled that the assistance of the FBI office in Sarajevo and Europol was requested and that this resulted in a huge amount of data, including 130 “crypts”, i.e. an extremely large number of direct and indirect contacts.
Out of the total number, 15 encrypted phones, which were used by 12 people, were isolated for the purpose of analyzing operationally relevant data related to the murder of Sarajevo policemen.
In this way, several criminal acts were deciphered, and according to the testimony, at the end of September 2021, the first information about the specific criminal act was obtained. Namely, it was a communication between the second accused Macan, and a certain Aleksandar Nikolic, in which Macan expresses his fear regarding possible DNA traces.
The indictment charges Marinkovic, Macan, and Trifkovic that on October 26th, 2018, in the Alipasino Polje neighborhood of Sarajevo at 4:20 a.m., and after the police officers found them stealing a vehicle – a Volkswagen Golf in Geteova street, they fired at least 20 shots at Adis Sehovic and Davor Vujinovic, who were in a police car.
The trial continues today.
E.Dz.
