Reports of organised groups of people and fans coming from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity to Banjaluka, on October 5, to participate in a protest organised by the late David Dragicevic’s father are false, Davor Dragicevic said. The protest will be peaceful and dignified, he said.
“Such reports are lies concocted by sick minds and every citizen who sympathizes with my family and who is aware that their child could just as easily be in David’s place is welcome at the protest,” Davor Dragicevic told the press representatives.
He called the information stated by the Republika Srpska entity Interior Minister Dragan Lukac of football fan groups from the FBiH coming to the protest in Banjaluka as completely false, whose aim was to scare the citizens.
“No groups were invited to the protest, nor is this a football match or a place where such groups should gather. This is a peaceful gathering of concerned citizens in support to the Dragicevic family,” he added.
David Dragicevic is a 21-year-old young man whose body was found in a Banjaluka settlement and the police first said that his death was accidental.
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 the competent prosecutor's office can qualify the case.
In order to distance themselves from the people who could abuse this gathering, the group supporting Davor Dragicevic in his quest for the truth as to what happened to his son, “Justice for David” stated several things they would not support at the protest gathering.
They do not want people coming with any flags, emblems or insignia (nationalist, religious or party) and everyone who brings such items to the protest will be considered not part of the group; no organised groups whose aim is to disrupt the public order are also welcome at the gathering; hate speech is not welcome at the protest because they want the protest to be a dignified gathering, above all; all participants in the protest are invited to record all those who plan to disrupt the public order or make any trouble during the protest, and finally, all those who start calling on the protesters to move away from the location where the protest was organised are not part of the main group.
