A DNA analysis has cleared Dragan Paravinja of the murder of a 21-year-old girl from Sanski Most in 2004, prosecutors from the Una-Sana Canton of northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina said on Wednesday.
"The DNA sample taken from Dragan Paravinja on the orders of the Cantonal Court in Bihac have returned negative results," the prosecution said in a press release.
Earlier this week, police investigators questioned Paravinja, who is in custody in Kula Prison in Eastern Sarajevo, in connection with the murder by strangulation of Amina Sabanagic seven years ago. The case was not closed because the perpetrator was never found, and the police became suspicious because Sabanagic was murdered in the same way in which Paravinja described the murder of Antonia Bilic in Croatia in his initial statement made after his arrest near Srbac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in June.
A court in the eastern Bosnian town of Sokolac is due to hand down a verdict on Friday in a case in which Paravinja is accused of attempted rape of a girl in 2002.
