Zijad Mutap, Alisa Mutap-Ramić, Hasan Dupovac, Josip Barić and Muamer Ožegović pleaded not guilty today to the judge of the Court of B&H, Mirsad Strika, on any count of the indictment for covering up and planting evidence in the case of the murder of Dženan Memić.
In this case, the main trial is open and the trial is going well, but what currently interests B&H public is the direct perpetrator of Dženan's murder and who is his mastermind, as well as the motive for the crime. These two items have recently occupied the attention of the prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office of B&H.
Ifet Feraget, the lawyer of the Memić family, says that the investigation into the murder is certain because there is a large amount of evidence that enablesstart of it.
- Namely, the prosecutors of the Cantonal and Federal Prosecutor's Offices who were reported for covering up the murder and obstructing the investigation cannot take over the case. It is obvious that the Sarajevo prosecutor's office is involved in the cover-up and cannot ensure its impartiality. I expect that the Prosecutor's Office of B&H will issue an order in the next period to conduct an investigation into the murder case itself. I don’t think the results of the investigation will come quickly, because I don’t believe in quick investigations. A quality investigation takes time regardless of the fact that we lost five years and six months - Feraget explains.
He stated that only now it is necessary to do what had to be done on February 8th, 2016, when Dženan Memić was inflicted with injuries that turned out to be fatal.
- We're going back to the beginning. It will be a signal to both the HJPC, the UDT and the Cantonal and Federal Prosecutor's Offices that they need to do something about the prosecutors who worked on the case and missed the target. And, they didn’t miss the target because they were shooting badly, but they didn’t want to shoot at the right target. They turned to the other side and fired at another target. This will be the last investigation in this case, the third will not be. So now we are focusing on the act of murder itself and that investigation will cover all those directly involved, but also the rest, court experts, police officers and prosecutors who have obviously abused their official position, each in their own way. When we get to the direct executor, we will have a motive, and when we get to the motive, we have solved the case - Feraget specified.
He explained that as far as the involvement of prosecutors and experts is concerned, there is more than enough evidence to open an investigation against them.
- It is quite certain that several witnesses said a lot of useful information about the direct perpetrator of the murder and the motive.
Through the interrogation of a number of witnesses, the Prosecution also determined the circumstances concerning the act of murder itself. Protected witnesses spoke about it, although there were those who openly said what they knew. As for the number of executors, if we follow some logic, Dženan had defensive injuries.
If he was defending himself from an attacker, then that attacker could not have inflicted a fatal injury on him at the very beginning, but at the end. It is obvious that it was a fight, as Dalida Burzić said. She said there was an escalating conflict and stated "they didn't want to kill him". According to Dženan's injuries, some of which are defensive, it can be concluded that there were more attackers. In addition, Alisa Ramić - Mutap has a minor bodily injury to the head and her statement on the basis of which it can be concluded that it is a larger number of people - said Feraget.
