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The Zagreb Zec family, father Mihajlo, wife Marija and their twelve-year-old daughter Aleksandra were killed with firearms.
The Zagreb butcher, Mihajlo Zec, was killed trying to escape from his home in Trešnjevka, where armed people broke into around 11pm.
His wife and minor daughter were taken by the murderers to the Hogar Adolfovac mountain refuge in Sljeme, where they were executed and their bodies covered in garbage.
Shortly after the police found the bodies, members of Mercep’s unit – Munib Suljic, Igor Mikola, Sinisa Rimac, Nebojsa Hodak and Snezana Zivanovic – were arrested.
Some of them confessed to the murders before the investigating judge, but in the trial it was determined that they did not have a lawyer before the investigating judge, and by law they should do so, so their previous statements were withdrawn and they were acquitted.
The criminals were not prosecuted and the payment of a one-time financial aid to Dušan and Gordana Zec in 2004 remained the only act of support for the survivors.
Aleksandra, Marija and Mihajlo were buried in Gornja Dragotinja near Prijedor, the birthplace of Mihajlo Zec.
Tomislav Mercep died a few weeks ago
Tomislav Mercep, whose unit committed the crime, died on November 17. Mercep was convicted of war crimes.
In 2016, the County Court found him guilty of a war crime against civilians and he was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.
A year later, the Supreme Court increased the sentence to seven years in prison.
“He knew that his subordinates were torturing, robbing and killing at Pakracka Poljana, and he did not take any action to prevent them from doing so, so he gave them the go-ahead to do so,” concluded the chairman of the judicial panel, Zdravko Majerovic, reading Mercep’s first instance verdict.
