Croatian media: Bus driver leaving the street in Slvanski Brod, where 10 Kosovars died tragically

For one of the worst traffic accidents in Croatia, what happened on Sunday of July 25th this year on the highway near Slavonski Brody in Croatia was written for days. With a month of detention, the 52-year-old driver D has been sentenced. L., suspected of tragedy. That's what the District Court did in Slavonski Brod.

For this story, what will happen next, this detail also matters: the bus driver, D.L. He is a foreign citizen, so he is sentenced to detention because of the possibility of escape, much more so that Croatia and Kosovo have agreements for co-operation in criminal procedure that envisions the mutual extradition of citizens for prosecution. The case was taken by the District State Prosecutor in Slavonski Brod, and the Kosovo driver has been assigned the detention measure for a month.

From then on, July 27, until the end of November of this year, driver D.L. was in custody because of the serious traffic accident of ten people dead and twenty seriously injured, and then on November 22nd he was released to be protected from outside. He was acquitted by District Court judge at Slavonski Brod Mirko Svirchevic. He has done so despite the fact that the bus driver, Kosovo citizen D. L., has not passed psychiatric, psychological and neurological expertise sought by the District Prosecutor, writes the Croatian media, broadcast Express.

This expertise is extremely important to determine whether it's a murder by default or an intentional murder. And this qualification of the work is especially important for the indictment, as well as for the fact that Kosovo's driver will be tried in the Municipal Court or District Court”, a judicial expert told telegram.

The “is extremely unclear why Judge Sviric released D.L. He, the Kosovo driver, has been in custody for four months by then, and there have been no legal obstacles to continuing in prison for even a month, even for two months, since in such cases the detention could last up to six months”.

But on December 13 of this year, D. L. had to end up in custody again. The District Court's extrajudgmental panel in Stlavonski Brod, a colleague of Judge Svricevicic, approved the prosecution's complaint against releasing the Kosovo bus driver until the outcome of the necessary expertise to determine the qualifications of tragedy.

Interestingly, during the decision on continuing or removing custody, driver D.L. is not represented by his defence lawyers, Zagreb lawyers, Igor Cisper and Ljubo Pavasovic Viskovic. The possible reason is that Judge Sviric has ruled this very early, at 7:30, this medium writes.