TWO YEARS SEARCHING FOR THE BONES OF A NATIONAL HERO: Bosnian photographer claims to have found the remains of a famous partisan in the mountains!

A photographer from Jablanica, Dženad Džino, discovered remains and items on Mount Prenj that could belong to Ilija Španović, a National Hero from World War II, and published the entire story on his YouTube channel.

As he stated, he spent two years searching for the place where “history stopped.”

“This is definitely the place…”

“Every dug-up piece of earth was a hope that I would assemble the mosaic. This was not just a search. This was a debt to a man and a history that must not remain unfinished. When I found the boot, I knew it was the moment when Prenj decided to speak,” he said.

Džino documented the entire process with a camera and recorded a video clip showing him finding shell casings and fragments of Italian hand grenades and other items that could belong to Španović.

Džino also found a button which he said could be from the greatcoat of this national hero.

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“Here is a buckle as well. This is also something military. I’m not sure, but I think this could be a good sign. This is definitely the place where a uniform rotted away. Whose, I don’t know. One certainly rotted here, and that belongs to Ilija Španović,” he recounted.

Džino found all the aforementioned items nearby. In the video, he also mentioned that he called a friend, an expert in World War II artifacts, who told him that the mentioned artifacts were definitely a pants buckle, while the button was from a greatcoat from the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

He also found a shoe sole and other parts of footwear, as well as bones he believes belong to Ilija Španović, reports Klix.ba.

Awaiting DNA analysis

“Human bones in a boot. Toes. I found the remains of a national hero. I found the remains of Ilija Španović on April 12, 2026,” he said in the video.

He left the bones at the site of the discovery and will inform the police about everything. He added that he believes enough has been found for a DNA analysis.

Ilija Španović was born on April 30, 1918, and died on Mount Prenj during World War II in 1943. He was a participant in the National Liberation War and a National Hero of Yugoslavia.

According to historical records, he died during the Fourth Enemy Offensive when, after crossing the Neretva, on March 10, 1943, his battalion on Mount Prenj, in the northern part of eastern Herzegovina, was suddenly attacked by Chetniks.

By decree of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the Federative People’s Republic of Yugoslavia on December 20, 1951, Španović was declared a National Hero.