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Jovan Tintor sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment for war crimes in Vogošća

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, August 30 (FENA) - Having held the trial in the criminal case against the accused Jovan Tintor, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered a First-Instance Judgment on 30 August 2018, finding the accused Jovan Tintor guilty of the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity in violation of Article 172 Paragraph 1 Subparagraph (h) as read with Subparagraphs (a), (d), (e), (f), (i) and (k) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), all in conjunction with Article 180 Paragraph 1 thereof.

The accused was found guilty because he, in the period from April until at least the second half of June 1992, in the territory of Vogošća Municipality, as part of a widespread and systematic attack of the Yugoslav People's Army, the Territorial Defense of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (later renamed the Army of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Army of the Republika Srpska) within which the Territorial Defense of the Serb municipality of Vogošća was formed and operational, paramilitary formations, police forces of the Ministry of Interior of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Public Security Station of the Serb municipality of Vogošća directed against the civilian population of Croat and Muslim ethnicity in the territory of Vogošća Municipality, as a member of the Main Board of the Serb Democratic Party of BiH and president of the Crisis Staff of the Serb municipality of Vogošća, with knowledge of that attack and that his acts constituted a part of that attack, with a discriminatory intent, as a participant of a joint criminal enterprise involving a plurality of persons, committed persecution by way of imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of rules of international law, forcible transfer, murders, torture, enforced disappearance and other inhumane acts of a similar character committed with the intent to cause great suffering or serious injury to body or to physical or mental health.

The Court sentenced the accused Jovan Tintor to 11 (eleven) years' imprisonment.

The time that the accused Jovan Tintor spent in pretrial custody from 8 February 2016 onwards shall be credited towards the imposed sentence of imprisonment.

Pursuant to Article 284(c) of the Criminal Procedure Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CPC BiH), the accused is acquitted of the charge under Count II of the Indictment that in mid-June 1992 members of military and the Public Security Station of the Serb municipality of Vogošća illegally arrested Muslim civilians in Vogošća and took them to the Bunker. Shortly thereafter, members of the VRS (Army of the Republika Srpska) led those civilians out of the Bunker, took them away somewhere and killed them by use of firearms. The civilians have been exhumed from a mass grave in Vlakovo”, whereby he would commit the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity in violation of Article 172 Paragraph (1) Subparagraph (h) as read with Subparagraph (a) of the CC BIH, in conjunction with Article 180(1) thereof.

Following the delivery of the judgment, the Court issued a Decision continuing the custody of the accused Jovan Tintor on the grounds of Article 132(1)(a) of the CPC BiH. The custody under this decision may not exceed a period of nine months after the judgment is delivered (i.e. until 30 May 2019) or until the accused is sent to serve his sentence, stated the BiH Court.

(FENA) S. R.

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