First-instance verdict: 30 years in prison for Haris Haračić from Teočak

(Patria) - The Cantonal Court of Tuzla, based on the indictment of the TK Prosecutor's Office, has issued a guilty first-instance verdict and imposed a unified sentence of long-term imprisonment of 30 years on Haris Haračić (25) from Teočak for murder and attempted murder committed in a cruel manner at the end of December 2020 in Teočak.

We remind you that Haračić is accused of cruelly killing Hajrija Džuzdanović on December 23, 2020, and attempting to kill her husband Mujo.

The indictment states that on the mentioned day, around 11 PM, Haračić broke into the family home of the elderly couple in Teočak, scattered things in the basement and the house, and cruelly inflicted a large number of stab wounds with a sharp object, as well as numerous injuries by hitting the sleeping couple with his hands on their heads, faces, and entire bodies.

Hajrija, seventy-three years old, died from her injuries at the University Clinical Center Tuzla several hours after the event, while her husband, seventy-seven-year-old Mujo Džuzdanović, who was severely injured at the time, also died two weeks later.

After the verdict was announced, the court extended Haračić's pre-trial detention at the proposal of the Prosecutor's Office.