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BIH COURT: GADŽO, LALIČIĆ AND HEBIB ACQUITTED OF WAR CRIMES AGAINST SERBS IN HRASNICA




SARAJEVO, MAY 30 (ONASA) – Senad Gadžo, Zaim Laličić and Suljo Hebib were acquitted of war crimes against the civilian population in the area of Hrasnica near Sarajevo by the first-instance verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The trial of Gadžo, Laličić and Hebib began in March 2022, and they, as former members of the First Corps of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH), were charged with illegal imprisonment, murder, torture and ill-treatment in Hrasnica near Sarajevo from 1992 to 1994.
According to the indictment, these crimes were committed in the premises of the prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo, the “Aleksa Šantić” Elementary School, as well as in the garages between the skyscrapers.
As stated by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they were accused of having participated in murders, intentional infliction of great suffering and violations of physical integrity and health in the basement of an unfinished residential building, on the territory of the settlement of Hrasnica, where civilians of Serbian nationality were detained.
The defense of three former members of the BiH Army presented their closing arguments in which they requested an acquittal, pointing out that some counts of the indictment are based only on the testimony of witnesses that the defense could not examine.
As the defense stated, no evidence was presented for some counts of the indictment and that it was logical that the Prosecution abandoned them.