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The juvenile who killed one and wounded another policeman with a knife at the police station in Bosanska Krupa on Thursday was sentenced to one month’s detention, it was confirmed for Radio Free Europe from the Prosecutor’s Office of the Una-Sana Canton (USK).
The attack by the minor was marked as a terrorist act.
Detention was ordered at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, in order to continue investigative actions, expert reports and to gather all the facts related to the criminal act.
A day after the attack, the police arrested eight people in Bosanska Krupa and Bihać, in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), who are linked to the crime.
State and entity security agencies are involved, and EUROPOL has been contacted and work is being done to identify the persons who were in contact with the attacker.
The USK police stated that searches of residential buildings were carried out and a certain amount of weapons, ammunition, laptops, phones, portable USB stickers, a large amount of money, and a large amount of paper slips in the Arabic language were found.
More details about the operation have not yet been published by the State Prosecutor’s Office, nor by the State Agency for Investigation and Protection, which carried out the arrest operation.
The prosecutor’s office and the police from Bosanska Krupa neither denied nor confirmed media reports about the boy’s religiously motivated move.
It is being determined whether he is incited to terrorism and whether he is connected to extremist groups.
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