Slobodan Đurić was born in 1944 in Belgrade. His family comes from Virovitica, but in 1949 they moved to Bjelovar. Before the war in the 1990s he owned a bar-restaurant in Bjelovar, which was mined at the end of 1991. The subsequent police investigation and court proceedings did not bear fruit: the perpetrators were never found and no court order for compensation was ever made. In search of justice, Slobodan Đurić brought actions before the Municipal Court, the County Court, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. After the verdicts from the Municipal Court and the County Court, two parallel proceedings were conducted, one for material damages and one for non-material damages, in which he was ordered to pay court expenses in the amounts of 30 000 Kuna and 25 000 Kuna. Following an action brought before it, the Constitutional Court rendered a decision by which Slobodan was exempt from paying the court expenses. In 1993 he rebuilt his property at his own expense and reopened the establishment, but the material damages that he and his family suffered were never compensated for. He still lives in Bjelovar.