BALKAN’S Hannibal Lecter: Meet the world's most dangerous and best guarded prisoner in the Republic of Srpska (PHOTOS)

Goran Kotoran, a mass murderer from Dubica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that 2006. has been sentenced to 16 years in jail, serves a sentence in a prison in Foca, and represents a real danger to all the people that surrounds him. Everybody’s afraid of him - the prisoners, the guards, the visitors!

- He is guarded by special guards. He is alone in his cell, and for the safety of other inmates nearby cells are completely empty. Almost half hall is isolated because of him. "Monster from Dubica" as they call him, rarely contact with other inmates, and the guards that watch over him are extremely careful and ready to react at any time of day or night. They have order to shoot him, if he tries anything! The prisoners talk that the murders he committed are just a small amount of the crimes he did in his life. In addition to the aforementioned nickname, some inmates call him Hannibal Lector - says our source from prison in Foca.

Goran's father Dusan Kotoran was one of the underworld bosses in Dubica. His name was linked with trafficking. It is suspected that this is why he was murdered in December 1999. at a bar in Dubica. His son Goran was with him that night.

After his father's death, he went to his mother, to Sweden. Back then he was just 17 years old.  There he committed two murders, but after a psychiatric examination he was deported to Bosnia diagnosed as mentally ill person.

- I expected that I would be returned to Bosnia to implement a treatment in a psychiatric hospital, but instead, a police officer drove me home and no one appeared for days - said once Kotoran.

Since he wasn’t hospitalized, his condition and behavior was growing worse. His granny Stana was witness of his ill condition. She said that after the return of her grandson, he rapidly spread fear all over the place.

- He refused to go to the hospital, so I was forced to serve him, even when I operated the bile. He used to change his mood, oftenly, so she was afraid of him. He banned my neighbors to come visit me. He used to yell at me, even broke my TV and telephone. There was nothing that could stop him - said granny after the arrest of her grandson.

This was confirmed in June 2006, when Goran along with his two half-brothers (from his mother) - Miroslav Gligic (30) and Borislav Dabic (24), has been arrested on suspicion of strangling Predrag Vrban (31), known as “Paddy the Thief”, and Sead Kanuric (49), aka “Stevo the Stuttering”. Goran and his brothers have hidden the bodies in the henhouse, and at the night of arresting, in Kozarska Dubica, they were chased by the troop of hundred officers .

After the arrest, police of Republic of Srpska raided his house, where they found two guns, two assault rifles, two machine guns, three grenades, more guns, side arms, night vision devices, tool they buried the bodies with, as well as 490 ecstasy pills and syringes for intravenous drug use.

When the verdict was reached, Kotoran expressed only one wish - to undergo new psychiatric evaluation with the chosen psychiatrist he could communicate with.

- I’m a sick person and, if in next 16 years prison leaders provide me a proper healing, I will get out as a normal man - said Kotoran.

During the sentence, judge read out loud that the defendant is ready, without any ambivalence, to commit the murder. Kotoran, however, said at the trial that he was a normal person until the night his father was killed right before his eyes.

- From that moment I was no longer the same person - he said, adding that "he lives for the moment when he will meet his father’s murderer." However, until that moment comes, he will have to spend nine years in prison in Foca.

This institution is the biggest and most secure of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it was as well famous at the time of the former Yugoslavia, when it represented one of the "toughest" prisons in Balkan.

Wanting to find out more information about Kotoran, we contacted the leaders of this institution. However, the Administration of the Institution told us that they should not make statements to the media without the approval of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Srpska.

The Cabinet of Minister Goran Zlatkovic informed us to send an official request, cause that’s the only way for us to get all the necessary information about this inmate.

However, after a few days, despite sending a regular request, the ministry spokesman Sanja Dzombic has informed us that our request was denied and that they were not in a position to allow prison leaders to give us more information about Goran Kotoran. We didn’t get further explanation.

(Telegraf.rs)