Jovan Tintor sentenced to 11 years in prison

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - Former president of the Crisis Staff of the municipality of Vogošća, Jovan (Joja) Tintor, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison in the first-instance verdict for crimes committed in the spring and summer of 1992 in Vogošća, BHRT reports.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina established that Tintor committed crimes against humanity and participated in a joint criminal enterprise with the aim of persecuting the non-Serb population from the area of Vogošća.

Tintor was only acquitted of the count in the indictment that charged him with forced labor. All other counts of the indictment were proven.

The indictment charged Tintor, as the former president of the Crisis Staff of the municipality of Vogošća, on eight counts for participating in a widespread and systematic attack on the non-Serb population of that municipality from April to the end of July 1992.

Tintor is accused of unlawful detention, torture, beatings, forcing into forced labor, and murders of a large number of victims of Bosniak and Croat nationality committed in several camps in Vogošća. Among other things, the indictment accuses Tintor of hitting witness C-3, who was seven months pregnant, in the stomach.

To prove Tintor's guilt, the State Prosecutor's Office called more than 75 witnesses, as well as four expert witnesses, while the Defense heard about ten witnesses and one military expert.

Tintor was arrested in February 2016 at Rača, a border crossing with Serbia, on a warrant issued in 1999.