The AN postpones the hearing of the extradition to Bosnia of a brigade member claimed for war crimes due to medical problems

MADRID, 24 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court (AN) has postponed without date the extradition hearing to Bosnia Herzegovina of Ado A., an alleged member of the Knez Domagoj brigade claimed by the country as an alleged perpetrator of war crimes during the conflict that took place between 1992 and nineteen ninety five.

Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the session in which it was necessary to decide on his delivery had to be suspended 'sine die' after the defendant had to be transferred to the hospital.

In its brief, the Prosecutor's Office opposes his delivery to Bosnia Herzegovina, stating that "more than 20 years have elapsed since the events occurred", therefore the crime of attempted homicide with which he is charged would have prescribed.

According to the Public Ministry, the surrender for the crime of crimes against protected persons in case of armed conflict is not appropriate, since it was not in force at the time the acts were committed. For all these reasons, the prosecutor requests the freedom of the defendant with the obligation to appear before the court when he is called.

The extradition request identifies Ado A. as a member of the Knez Domagoj brigade "during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Croatian Defense Council and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina."

As such, according to the claimant country, he "exercised functions as a guard at the Babela concentration camp". "On an unspecified day in October 1993," Ado would have taken one of the inmates out of the hangar, "taking him to another" place "where, together with two other individuals, they ordered him to undress looking for money among his clothes and hitting him over the head with the butt of a pistol."

"The defendant punched the victim's jaw, breaking several teeth, and the victim fell to the ground where, among the three individuals, they kicked him in the arms, ribs, back, and legs for several minutes, hitting him on the head and face with a bar. plastic from about 10 to 80 cm long," says the letter from the Prosecutor's Office.

"As a result of the blows," he details, "the victim could not get up, so he was dragged into a forest some 40 meters away in order to get rid of him quickly."

In that place, and without ending "his life", the victim "pushed the defendant and managed to escape through the minefield, reaching the wire fence of the concentration camp and slipping through the wire and managed to hide in the forest" and managed to flee.

He rushed to Meurgorje, specifically to the headquarters of the Spanish UNPROFOR battalion, where "he fell unconscious due to the beatings and ill-treatment he suffered, currently presenting sequelae as a result of them."