Savic: Appeal Due To Disparity Between Sentence And Gravity Of Crime
07 September 2009 The State Prosecution files an appeal with the Court, concerning the first-instance verdict sentencing Momir Savic to 18 years in prison for crimes committed in Visegrad.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has appealed the sentence pronounced by the first-instance Chamber against Momir Savic in July this year.
"The Prosecution considers that 18 years in prison is too lenient bearing in mind the gravity of the crimes of which the indictee was found guilty," the Prosecution said, calling on the Court to revise the verdict and pronounce a longer sentence.
On the basis of evidence presented during the trial, the first-instance Chamber determined that Savic was Commander of the Third Squad with the Visegrad Brigade of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, from April to September 1992. It further determined that he participated in the capture, deportation, mistreatment and murder of civilians from Visegrad and Rudo municipalities.
He was found guilty of crimes against humanity.
"The Prosecution considers that the Court correctly determined the factual status and correctly applied the Criminal Procedure and Criminal Code, but it failed to pronounce an adequate sentence," the State Prosecution said.
Savic was arrested in December 2007. His trial began in August 2008.
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