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Alminko Islamović convicted of abusing, robbing Serb civilians in Bosanski Brod

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, April 1(FENA) - Former Croat Defense Council fighter Alminko Islamović was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for inhumanely treating and robbing Serb civilians in the Bosanski Brod area in 1992.

The Bosnian state court on Monday found Alminko Islamović, a former member of the Croat Defense Council’s military police squad, guilty of the inhumane treatment of two Serbs in the Bosanski Brod area in 1992, and of taking their property.

“Taking into account of all the pieces of evidence presented, the trial chamber has determined without doubt that the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has proved that Islamović committed crimes against the civilian population,” said presiding judge Zoran Božić.

The first-instance verdict said that civilian Branislav Narić was arrested in June 1992 and taken to the old police building in Bosanski Brod, where Islamović knocked him down and beat him up.

The verdict also said that the defendant participated in taking money from civilian Ratko Kovačević, who handed over 20,000 German marks so that his life would be spared.

Under the first-instance verdict, Islamović was also acquitted of the murder of several civilians, as well as mining and burning religious and cultural monuments and houses owned by Serbs.

The court said it had not found sufficient evidence to convict him of participation in the crimes.

He was further acquitted of taking civilians to a bridge over the river Sava, where they were tied up and exposed to bombing from the air.

Judge Božić said witnesses did not testify that they saw Islamović tie anyone up on the bridge.

The verdict can be appealed, BIRN reports.

(FENA) S. R.

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