JABUKOVAC MASSACRE She is accused of participating in a horrible quadruple murder, and the two courts have been fighting for the arrest for two months

For almost two months there has been a dispute between the High Court and the Negotin High Prosecutor’s Office in the case of a quadruple murder that took place in August last year in the village of Velja Vratna, not far from Jabukovac, where Raja Kazimirovic ( 72) and his mother Dragica were killed by rifle shots. 93), Sister Ljubinka Oprikić (76) and Sister Dragana Jozeljić (53).

Investigation

Namely, after the investigation in the case of this murder against Davor Pernić was finally completed, another name was found in the amended indictment brought by the prosecution in Negotino to the court: Maja Bađukić (26).

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This girl, since Pernić’s arrest, has been mentioned as a suspect in the murder (Pernić pointed her out in the investigation), but due to the lack of evidence in the first indictment, she was not found. However, the supplemented investigation, the expertise that was conducted, and Pernić’s testimony at the hearing were sufficient to create a justified suspicion that he shot Dragan Jozeljić and that he killed Raja Kazimirović along with Pernić.

Amendment to the indictment

With the accusation amended, the Superior Prosecutor of the Negotiation Court requested that he remain in preventive detention for public harassment. As an explanation, the prosecution stated that the defendant influenced public opinion with her actions in the previous period, but also with those that may continue.

– You appeared often in the media where you spoke about the investigation and thus influenced the public. In addition, her statements in which she speaks of her innocence in this case can influence the court and decision-making, says a source from “Blic” who knows the case.

Denial of detention

However, the court rejected this proposal and stated as an explanation “that the accused was previously detained on suspicion of the same fact, and that she was released at the proposal of the Prosecutor’s Office.”

The prosecution appealed to the Court of Appeals, which confirmed the appeal and ordered the perpetrator to reopen the process and consider the reasons for requesting his preventive detention.

– In the new decision, the court practically copied its previous decision, although Badjukic was released during the investigation, because there was no evidence against her at the time. However, as evidence was collected and she was found on a new indictment, she was asked to find herself behind bars again, our source claims.

Murder

Let us remind you that the horrible massacre in which members of the Kazimirović family died occurred on August 9, 2019.

Aside from the suspicion that Raja was killed for money, everything indicated that someone from Jabukovac was connected to the crime.

Directly as a killer or indirectly, as a tip.

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The same way the victims were killed also indicated that the killer had experience in handling weapons. All of this narrowed the circle of suspects, and material evidence indicated that resident Davor Pernić was linked to the crime, and on August 25 he was arrested.

He confessed to the crime, specified that he killed the victims on August 7 around 11 in the morning, and even showed where he buried an arsenal of weapons on his father’s property: a “scorpion”, a hunting rifle and a pistol .

The first month of his detention passed, and when it was believed that the prosecution was slowly preparing an indictment against him, Pernić changed his statement and linked Maja Badjukić, with whom he previously had an emotional relationship, to the crime. He claimed that she participated in the crime on August 7, but not before noon, but at dawn, and that she persuaded him to do everything.

He gave away DNA on cigarette butts

At the time, no material evidence placed her at the crime scene, only Pernić’s statement. She was in custody for three months, during which time she and Pernić were neuropsychiatrically examined and it was determined that they were not insane. In the analysis of the weapon believed to have been killed by Raja and her closest relatives, only Pernić’s biological traces were found, not Maja’s.

After his release from custody, in the vicinity of the crime scene, on December 30 of last year and on January 24 of this year, cigarette butts were found and the expertise showed that his DNA was on them.