Davor Dragicevic: I’ll say their names on October 5

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The father of the deceased David Dragicevic said he will say the names of his son's alleged executors and murderers. During Monday protests in Banjaluka, he added that he will then do something that he should have done a long time ago, not revealing what he would do.

“Not even Nazis did what they did to my son. What this state did to my son. As a veteran of the Republika Srpska entity and as a disabled veteran, I lived to see my son get killed, raped and massacred,” Davor Dragicevic said addressing the protester who gathered before the Banjaluka District Court building in Banjaluka, protesting the death and lack of progress in the investigation of the death of David Dragicevic.

The young man’s family claims that it is impossible that David’s death was “accidental” as was said during the first press conference on this case. Due to the public disturbance and constant protests caused by the case, the National Assembly of the RS formed a Board of Inquiry with the aim of identifying the relevant circumstances of this young man's death. After the Board concluded that there were elements for the suspicion that he could have been killed, the ruling coalition of delegates rejected the Board’s report saying that only by the competent prosecutor's office can qualify the case.

The District Prosecutor's Office of Banjaluka submitted, in early July, an order to conduct an investigation into the murder of Dragicevic against several unknown persons, and according to the details of the order, David Dragicevic “either ran away from the perpetrators and fell down the steep banks of the River Crkvena from a height of around 4.5 meters, or the perpetrators pushed him into the river from the banks when he drowned shortly after hitting the water.”

On Monday, the father said he only cares about those he considers to be responsible for his son’s death and that he does not want to live without David.

He recalled that he said everything he knew to the competent RS institutions concerning his son’s death, but that no one is realising the severity of the situation he is in.

Dragicevic announced another peaceful protest on October 5 and added:

“I’m going to be with my son forever and I’m going to do what I indented to do.”

He also stressed that he would then reveal the names of his son’s alleged executors and murderers.