Press release from the district prosecutor's office on the "Dragičević" case

The Prosecutor's Report, Signed by District Attorney Zelimir Lepir, is fully transmitted:

the death of David Dragicevic by the MUP of Republika Srpska on March 29 The same year, the Prosecution has not given any order for the conduct of the investigation and ordered the commencement of an investigation into the murder, as the evidence gathered did not allow suspicion that the murder had been committed.

additional investigative measures, in order to make the appropriate prosecution decision. For these reasons, an acting prosecutor of the MUP's authorized agents in Republika Srpska conducted individual investigations to determine all the facts and issued an appropriate prosecution decision.

Due to the great disturbance of the public, I ordered another prosecutor and the Republican Chief Prosecutor of Republika Srpska also appointed two prosecutors of the Republic who, in accordance with the law on prosecutor's offices of the Republika Srpska, supervise and assist the work of these prosecutors. I was involved in this case personally and myself, as Attorney General, but also my first deputy.

All evidence collected by authorized persons of the Ministry of the Interior of Republika Srpska and submitted to the report is legal. in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Republika Srpska. Therefore, the work on this case is conducted as a team

Up to now, a number of investigative actions have been conducted: witness examinations, polygraphy, examination of. alibi, reconstruction, expert testimony, etc. Upon the arrival of the medical expert from Zagreb on the injuries and injuries of David Dragicevic, the prosecution entered a position to take a prosecution decision.

In the previous evidence-gathering process, we established with certainty the following:

– David Dragičević, not kidnapped, captured and abused. For this, there is no indication, the basis of doubt or proof. This conclusion is based on the finding of an expert in the medical profession, which does not entail the existence of injuries that would indicate kidnapping, attachment, rape of the victim and others. This factual situation goes against the claims of the father and a part of the public who consistently point out that the person was kidnapped and detained in captivity and then liquidated.

– David Dragičević was not beaten with sticks by a large number of people. part of the audience. This view is logically confirmed by the fact that only slight bodily injuries were found on the body without any fracture.

– In the body of David Dragičević, alcohol was found in the amount of 1.58, according to the findings of the KTC Banjaluka, and according to the findings of the Belgrade VMA, 130 blood transfusions and 2.59 changes in the urine.

– On the dungeon the findings of the expert medical expert (Karan Zeljke, Milosavljevic Ivice, as well as the expert team of Zagreb), it was established that the drowning took place on March 18, 2018. year, and that the body was spent in the water until March 24, 2018. Based on the report on the results of the toxicological and chemical analysis carried out by the Department of Chemical Toxicology, the MMA Poisoning Control Center in Belgrade, it was determined that the blood and urine of injured David Dragičević were not proven the presence of narcotics (the report contains detailed lists of opiates for which blood and urine have been tested).

– David Dragičević received light bodily injuries, which are checked on the front of the body and no bodily injury is present on his back. According to the opinion of the medical experts, the same could be due to the fall of the body on the paved stone ground, which is just the left side of the bed of the Crkvena River. Doctors allow the possibility that wounds on the lips, blood splatter of the right hand and lower leg can result from strokes.

– The doctors ruled out the possibility that David Dragičević's body fell from the bridge directly into the water without contact with obstacles, but simply by falling and sliding on the steep slope (rocky part of the coast ).

– The death of David Dragičević occurred in the drowning of water (the Church of Revelation).

– With great probability, we determined the trajectory of David Dragičević's movement during the night of the city to the place where the critical event occurred

– En conducting further investigations, we reached suspicion. David Dragicevic's drowning and maturation in the river took place in the manner that we set out to investigate the murder offense under Article 124, paragraph 1, of the Republika Penal Code Srpska, combined with Article 37 of the same law. According to the results of the investigations carried out so far, it has been established that a verbal and physical confrontation between the Crkvena River and the Velenje Janjetovi Janje River, on Veliki Janjetovi Janje Street, in Banja Luka, on 18 March 2018 around 4 am injured and suspected (two or three unknown perpetrators) who was injured by Dragicevic David, fearing for his life, escaped from the perpetrators and fell on the steep bank of the Crkvena River, about 4.5 meters in height , in crumbling crkven river, or executors pushed from the same coast to the river C to ensure that in the short period of time after matured in the water, the victim was killed by drowning in the water. Water, and the corpse was damaged on March 24, 2018. found in the Crkvena River in the immediate vicinity of the mouth of the river Vrbas. As a result, the Prosecution continues to investigate in order to clarify and establish facts regarding the aforementioned investigation order.

The consent of all prosecutors involved in the proceedings was expressed when the decision of the prosecution was adopted. As head of the district prosecutor's office in Banja Luka, on this occasion, I inform the public that we, the acting prosecutor and myself, have received threatening messages twice by e-mail. We have submitted to the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Republika Srpska – Special Department for the fight against corruption, the forms of economic crime organized and the hardest, for inspection and l & # 39; investigation.

. In public, some media and citizen groups are wrong in the context of this event, with the aim of criminalizing state institutions, mainly the Public Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior of Republika Srpska, and some groups want to reach their political ratings before the elections.

As Attorney General, I have repeatedly received an interview with the injured father David Dragicevic and his two lawyers, as it is common in practice for the injured parties to cooperate with the prosecution, as a pursuit organ. However, they accuse us prosecutors and other employees of the Republika Srpska MUP of bringing criminal charges and identifying us with the public as accomplices to the murder, which we can not understand and understand.

The Prosecution will continue to work on this case under the Republika Srpska Prosecutor's Office Act, the Republika Srpska Criminal Procedure Code and the Republika Srpska Criminal Code, under this decision, the Banja Luka District Prosecutor's Office and the Republika Srpska Prosecutor's Office

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