Archive for March, 2008

Croatia Looking at Paying up some €250 Million Damages in Lost Court Cases

Zagreb, March 23 (CP) – Due to disputed contracts from the past Croatia may be looking at paying some € 250 million in damages.
Over the years Croatia has had a number of disputes when contracts for certain services agreed were broken off and two court cases are to end any day now with Croatia possibly […]

Zagreb Police Arrest the 18-year-old Hooligan who Damaged a TV Camera and Injured a Cameraperson

Zagreb, March 23 (CP) – A member of the Bad Blue Boys (BBB) Dinamo Zagreb soccer club supporters, an 18-year-old youth has been arrested after police searched for him for a whole day following an incident in Zagreb’s main square when he rammed a TV cameraperson, giving him a bloody nose and knocking over his […]

Split Police Capture nearly Four Kilos of Heroin

Zagreb, March 22 (CP) – The Split and Dalmatia county police in collaboration with the anti-corruption and organised crime office (USKOK) managed to confiscate nearly five kilos of heroin in Dugopolje near Sibenik on Friday evening.
The police had noticed a backpack flying out of a passenger car and stopped the car with two passengers who […]

Ovcara Massacre War Crimes Suspect British Citizen Milorad Pejic Arrested in Belgrade

Zagreb, March 22 (CP) – Milorad Pejic, a war crimes suspect in the Ovcara farm massacre committed near Vukovar in Croatia in 1991 was arrested at the Belgrade Nikola Tesla airport on March 19.
An indictment against Pejic dates from 2003 when the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution submitted a request for launching of an investigation against […]

BBB Protest in Zagreb’s Main Square Ends with Broken TV Camera

Zagreb, March 22 (CP) – Although it was to be a quiet protest against being blamed for attempting to organise clashes with social groups to vindicate the death of their fellow Bad Blue Boy a week ago, one of the Dinamo soccer supporters managed to run into a Croatian Radio Television camera and push it […]

Croatian Football Coach Bilic Announces He’ll Remain at the Helm until 2010

Zagreb, March 21 (CP) – Croatian football squad coach Slaven Bilic has announced he would remain at the post for another two years, following rumours of him possibly accepting the post of German HSV coach.
Bilic said that he would remain the Croatian soccer squad coach for another two years and would leave after that no […]

Croatian National Television’s (HTV) Director Resigns following World Handball Championship’s TV Rights Scandal

Zagreb, March 21 (CP) – It has been confirmed that Robert Sveb the director of Croatian Radio Television (HTV) has resigned following the scandal in which HTV lost the rights to live broadcasts of the World Handball Championships in January of 2009 in Croatia.
In explaining his resignation Sveb said that he had resigned due to […]

Kindergarten Teacher Offers Dog Biscuits to Children in Sibenik

Zagreb, March 21 (CP) – A veteran kindergarten teacher of 22 years offered the children in the coastal town of Sibenik dog biscuits causing an uproar.
The incident happened some two weeks ago, but its details have only surfaced. The move would have gone unnoticed had a parent not been present and even offered a biscuit.
An […]

Croatia To See a White Easter

Zagreb, March 21 (CP) – Although spring is here, there is no spring-like weather in Croatia, or will there be any over Easter.
Rather than bask in the spring sunshine, Croats and their guests visiting Croatia over the Easter break are to enjoy a white Easter interspersed with cloud and possibly snowfall episodes.
This is what the […]

Croatian Squad Footballers Wish To Keep their Coach Bilic

Zagreb, March 20 (CP) – Members of the Croatia football team would like for Slaven Bilic to remain at the helm of the national soccer squad.
This comes after Bilic received an offer from the German HSV club for a coach position.
After HSV made its hefty offer to Bilic it was discovered that the Croatian Football […]

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