Suspect in War Crimes in Višegrad: French to Decide on Extradition of Šušnjar in January 2016

Radomir Šušnjar, suspected of war crimes committed in Višegrad, appeared for the fourth time before the Court of Appeal in Paris on October 14 regarding his extradition to Bosnia and Herzegovina, reports the Patria news agency.

Šušnjar will appear before the judges once more on December 9, after which a final decision will be made in January 2016.

After months of checks and investigative actions, in April 2014, Radomir Šušnjar, also known as Lalco, was located on French territory.

In contact with French judicial and police institutions, his urgent arrest and extradition to the judiciary of Bosnia and Herzegovina was requested. Šušnjar is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Radomir Šušnjar, together with Milan and Sredoje Lukić, participated in a horrific crime known to the public as the living bonfire, in which on June 14, 1992, in a house on Pionirska Street in Višegrad, over 70 Bosniak civilians were locked in, among them women who had been previously raped, as well as children, with the youngest victim being a two-day-old baby who had not even been named.

They were tortured and finally burned alive. Eight managed to escape. Two of the eight surviving victims of this monstrous crime have since died.

For this crime, the Hague Tribunal convicted Milan and Sredoje Lukić of persecution on political, racial, and religious grounds, inhumane acts, extermination, as well as murder and cruel torture.

Milan Lukić was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 4, 2012, and Sredoje Lukić to 27 years in prison.