French authorities met requests of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and extradited war crime suspect Radomir Susnjar to Bosnia's judicial institutions on Sunday.

Susnjar is a Bosnian national charged with committing a war crime in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad in 1992, when, according to the indictment, 57 Bosniaks were forcibly locked and burned in a house. As soon as the suspect was located in France, the competent institutions launched the procedure for his extradition to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia's Prosecutor's Office issued an indictment against Susnjar the last year, charging him with breaching the Geneva Convention on Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, during the 1990s armed conflict in Bosnia. The indictment charges him along with other members of the Bosnian Serbs army and paramilitary units with illegal capturing, robbing and closing of Bosniak civilians from Koritnik village in a house in Visegrad's Pionirska Street, after which the house was burnt down while the open fire on the house prevented the civilians from leaving it.

The UN's war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia convicted (ICTY) Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic in 2009 for war crimes in Visegrad, finding Milan Lukic, among other crimes, responsible for the murder of the Bosniak civilians in the burning house.

According to the ICTY's documents, some 3,000 Bosniaks were killed during the mass murders in Visegrad and its surroundings, including hundreds of women and children.

Bosnia's Prosecutor's Office thanked the judicial institutions of the Republic of France for their assistance in locating and extraditing the suspect, and to all law enforcement agencies which took part in the extradition process.