Davor Dragicevic

Returning to Sarajevo from Vienna, and claiming his life was in danger, Davor Dragicevic, father of the murdered youngster David Dragicevic, said the killings of his son and of Dzenan Memic had to be solved - and those who took part in covering up of the murders must be punished.

Davor Dragicevic's lawyer, Dragan Tolimir, confirmed to BIRN that he had received the Banja Luka prosecution's decision to discontinue the investigation against him on September 8.

Dragicevic himself said the decision meant little to him, as it has come after a three-year delay. "As far as I am concerned, the decision means nothing to me," he said.

A shrine has reappeared in Banja Luka's central Krajina Square - candles, flowers and a wooden carving of a clenched fist next to photographs of a 21 year-old student who died three years ago this month in this northern Bosnian town.

The trial in absentia of Davor Dragicevic began on Tuesday in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka on charges of slandering three senior police officers with comments accusing them of wrongdoing in the investigation into the death of his son David.

The paramount leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Milorad Dodik, says he is ready to move the case of a murdered 21-year-old student - who was killed in March last year and whose death has not been resolved - from the district attorney's office to the state prosecutor's office in Bosnia.

In his first television appearance on Wednesday evening since he went into hiding on December 30, Davor Dragicevic accused the authorities in Republika Srpska of seeking to kill him, after daily protests over the death of his 21-year-old son sparked widespread public anger in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity.

The parents of the killed Bosnian youngster whose death has shaken the country want his remains exhumed from Banja Luka, in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, so they can bury them in Austria.

The authorities in Republika Srpska, the mainly Serbian entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, have continued to put pressure on opposition demonstrators protesting over the unsolved murder of David Dragicevic, while his father, Davor, remains missing since protesters clashed with police in Banja Luka on Sunday.

Several people were arrested in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia's mainly Serb entity Republika Srpska, on Sunday night as thousands of protesters gathered again, in the latest in a series of demonstrations over the past several months over the unsolved death of 21-year-old David Dragicevic.

Protesters marched once again on Sunday in Banja Luka, the main city in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska.

David's father, Davor Dragicevic, told the protest that he would not leave Banja Luka's main square until his requests are met.