Second-instance judgment in Miodrag Josipović et al.

24.08.2022, 15:18

On 13 April 2022 Panel of the Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina /BiH/ rendered and on 15 July 2022 sent out a second-instance Judgment in the case of Miodrag Josipović et al., dismissing as ill-founded the appeal filed by the Prosecutor's Office of BiH and upholding the first-instance Judgment No. S1 1 K 017057 14 Kri dated 29 November 2021.

Under the first-instance Judgment of the Court of BiH, pursuant to Article 284(c) of the Criminal Procedure Code of BiH, the accused were acquitted of the charges, as follows: the accused Dragomir Vasić – criminal offense of Genocide under Article 171(a) and (b) of the Criminal Code /CC/ of BiH, as read with Article 180(1) and Article 29 thereof; and the accused Danilo Zoljić, Radomir Pantić, Miodrag Josipović and Branimir Tešić - criminal offense of Genocide under Article 171(a) and (b) of the CC BiH, as read with Article 180(1) and Article 31 thereof. The accused were acquitted of the charges because the Prosecution failed to prove that they committed the criminal offense charged.

The accused are acquitted of the charge that they, as described in the enacting clause of the judgment:

Dragomir Vasić, as Commander of the Zvornik Police Forces Staff and Chief of the Zvornik Public Security Center /CJB/, committed whereas Danilo Zoljić, as Commander of the Special Police Units /PJP/ of the Zvornik CJB, Radomir Pantić, as Commander of the 1st Company of the PJP of the Zvornik CJB, Miodrag Josipović, as Chief of the Bratunac Public Security Station /SJB/ and member of the Police Forces Staff of the Zvornik CJB quartered at the Bratunac SJB, and Branimir Tešić, as Deputy Commander of the Bratunac Police Station aided and abetted in the destruction in part of Bosniaks of the Srebrenica enclave as a national, religious and ethnic group that, as Bosniaks of Eastern Bosnia, constituted a substantial part of the ethnic group of Bosniaks.

No appeal is allowed against this judgment.