MOSTAR, March 13 (Hina) - The Mostar cantonal court's panel of judges on Thursday sentenced Muamer Topalovic, indicted of killing three Croat returnees on Christmas Eve last year, to 35 years in prison.
MOSTAR, March 13 (Hina) - The Mostar cantonal court's panel of
judges on Thursday sentenced Muamer Topalovic, indicted of killing
three Croat returnees on Christmas Eve last year, to 35 years in
prison. #L#
During the three-day main hearing this week, a Bosnian Muslim
Topalovic confessed to having killed three and wounded the fourth
member of the Andjelic family in the village on Kostajnica near
Konjic on 24 December last year.
Explaining the reasons for such sentence, Judge Hamo Kebo stressed
that the indictee had committed the crime, being incited by the
ethnic and religious hatred, and that he selected a house of the
Croat family Andjelic that had returned to its house in the village
of Kostajnica. One of the aggravating circumstances for the
indictee, as the judge said, was that he committed triple murder
intentionally on the eve ahead of a great Catholic holiday. This
affected the position of not only of Croats but of all others in
Bosnia, the judge explained.
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