After the first and only trial for murder Joze Leutara – for which six Croats connected with the Punishment Battalion of the HVO and indirectly with the top of the HDZ BiH were accused – ended in 2002 with an acquittal, the main questions still remain unanswered: who and why killed the Croatian head of the federal police? In addition, after a sloppy process in which the entire indictment was based on contradictory and illogical statements of a protected witness – a repeatedly convicted criminal Merim Galijatovićwho was serving time in the Zenica prison for rape – the question arose as to who and why directed the investigation in that direction. Sarajevo newspaper “Slobodna Bosna” wrote about this in November 2004.
“If, therefore, the investigation into the assassination of the former federal minister of police…
