I have nowhere to go. I can’t go to your grave, I can’t go home, I can’t go to your room because you’re not there. Without you, I don’t exist, Davor Dragicevic said on Sunday evening, at a rally in Banja Luka which gathered some 3,000 protesters.
“We will remain here until my demands are fulfilled. I’m not here to take anyone down by force. I will take the entire state down, legally,” said the father of David Dragicevic whose death sparked controversy in Banja Luka.
David Dragicevic was murdered in March 2018, and initially, police said that he had taken drugs and drowned in a nearby river. This explanation sparked public outrage and angered the young man’s father who swore he would pursue justice no matter what.
His father, however, believes police is covering up the murder and protecting some politically connected suspects.
On Saturday, Dragicevic requested the resignations of the RS Interior Minister Dragan Lukac, head of the RS Police Organised Crime Unit Darko Ilic, Director of RS Police Darko Culum, pathologist and head of the RS Forensic Medicine Institute Zeljko Karan and prosecutors Zelimir Lepir and Dalibor Vreco, because of their alleged involvement in the coverup.
In his emotional address at the rally, he reiterated his opinion of the Bosnian Serb leader and Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency Chairman Milorad Dodik, saying that he and the RS Interior Minister Dragan Lukac are the biggest criminals.
At the same time, Sarajevo residents organised a support rally demanding the resolution of David’s and Dzenan Memic’s murder who died on February 15, 2016, after sustaining fatal injuries on February 8, 2016, while walking with his girlfriend Alisa Mutap in Sarajevo suburb Ilidza.
In July 2018, the Sarajevo Cantonal Court released Ljubo and Bekrija Seferovic accused of causing and concealing a traffic accident in which, according to the Prosecutor's Office of the Sarajevo Canton, a 21-year-old victim, Dzenan Memic was mortally injured.
Dzenan Memic’s Father, Muriz, who led the rally in Sarajevo said that his message to Davor was “let’s go all the way.”
“I’ve been demanding justice for 1050 days. Do I have to demand justice in the streets? My case is totally clear – who the murderer is, who ordered the murder and who was covering up this whole case,” Muriz Memic told N1. “It is high time they realise I won’t stop. I’m not afraid, and I will never stop.”
Both rallies were organised on Sunday at 6 pm, and their main message was that the two cases must be finally resolved and that such things never happen to anyone, again.
