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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/ ... -Crime.php
Shocked by murders, Sarajevo imposes overnight curfew for teenagers
The Associated Press
Friday, February 29, 2008
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Authorities in Sarajevo, facing public anger over several brutal killings blamed on youths, have imposed an overnight curfew on teenagers, local government officials said Friday.
Residents of the Bosnian capital are upset with the authorities' response to youth crime, and two recent killings, in particular, have ignited outrage. That anger has been further stoked as residents have watched some convicted teen criminals go free because there is simply no place to jail them.
Sarajevo has only one lockup for juveniles, and it is severely overcrowded.
The two recent killings, however, have prompted calls for authorities to build new facilities and crack down on youth crime.
In January, a 72-year-old woman was doused with petrol and set on fire. Three teenagers have been charged in that killing. Then, on Feb. 5, police say three teens attacked and killed a 17-year-old student on a tram in downtown Sarajevo. One of the three stabbed him to death.
Authorities say Denis Mrnjavac's killing, while he was returning home from school, was unprovoked and that no bystanders came to his aid. It prompted thousands of protesters to hit the streets and demand action. They carried banners reading "Forgive us Denis."
In response, officials have allocated money for the establishment of more jails for juvenile offenders.
The curfew, ordered by the Sarajevo Canton Assembly on Thursday, forces parents to pay fines if their teenagers are found on the streets after 11. p.m., the assembly said in a statement. The new curfew will remain in effect for six months, when its impact will be assessed.
Authorities also demanded schools put together lists of potential criminals and submit them to the police along with plans for measures schools can take to try to prevent juvenile crime. One high school in the city is requiring teachers to call the homes of children deemed a risk in the evenings to check whether they are home.
Police have also patrolled streets more frequently since the killing on the tram.
One of the suspects in that killing, who is also 17, already has a criminal file, police said. The three teens can remain in detention for about another week, while prosecutors decide whether to charge them.
Highlighting the sense of impunity that young criminal offenders have, Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz reported that one of the suspects in the tram killing told police officers, "You can't do anything to me."
The paper quoted police officials as saying that the boy explained that each time he commits a crime prosecutors drop the charges against him because he is a teenager.
Under Bosnian law, teenagers and adults cannot be jailed in the same institutions.
Bosnia had one other juvenile lockup, in the southern town of Stolac, but it was destroyed, along with much of the town, during the country's 1991-95 war and was never rebuilt.
Police cautioned that the curfew did not mean officers would look at all young people with suspicion.
"Police will be sensitive when pursuing this rule. We do not want to hunt and scare the children. We want to protect them," said the head of the Sarajevo police, Zeljko Mijatovic.
