Several hundred people gathered Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary since the controversial death of Dzenan Memic, but also to protest the fact that the Prosecution has unsuccessfully tried to prove that two Roma persons were responsible for his death – twice. Despite the Prosecution's attempts, the case remains unresolved.
Dzenan's sister Arijana Memic addressed the protestors saying Saturday “marks the fourth anniversary since his murder.”
She added that the Memic family will never give up on their demands.
“Our demands are: conduct an adequate investigation, bring the perpetrators to Court and judge them in accordance with the law. Behind us is yet another first-instance acquittal. The Cantonal Court found that our Dzenan didn't suffer in the manner claimed by the Prosecution. Our Dzenan was killed and that is why we are here today,” Arijana Memic said.
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Muriz Memic, Dzenan's father, said the problem are politicians, prosecutors, police and expert witnesses who falsely testified.
“You've seen for yourselves that there were two acquittals. This means that there was no traffic accident. Was it not for me and Ifet Feraget (the family's attorney), Dzenan would have been hit by a car,” Muriz noted.
According to Attorney Feraget, injuries found on Dzenan's body could not have been the result of a traffic accident and they do not match the damage found on the van said to have hit Dzenan.
He also argued that this points to the possibility that the indictment was false.
Speaking about the case of David Dragicevic, a young man who also died a controversial death in Banja Luka, whose case was also never resolved, Feraget said “These two cases are clear evidence that Bosnia's judiciary is under the control of someone who is not part of it, but control's it through the people in the judiciary.”
He added that there are many other cases like these two, in Bosnia, which are not prosecuted.
The Saturday Sarajevo protest was also attended by the group demanding the truth for the death of David Dragicevic, and two girls who died as a result of a traffic accident in Sarajevo, Selma Agic and Edina Zejcirovic. The driver, in this case, is facing trial in Sarajevo.
Ljubo and Bekrija Seferovic, charged with causing a car accident in which Dzenan Memic died, were acquitted for the second time at the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo on January 13, 2020.
Seferovic was acquitted in the first instance verdict. However, the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina quashed the judgment and remanded it for retrial, which resulted in the second acquittal.
On the night of February 8, 2016, Dzenan Memic sustained life-threatening injuries in the Grand Alley in Ilidza, near Sarajevo. He passed away on February 15 at Sarajevo hospital.
