Archive for May 19th, 2008

Three Boys Living in Unsustainable Conditions and Left to their Own Devices in a Hut near Sibenik

Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – Three boys of whom the oldest is just eight years old are living in awful conditions without water and electricity and a mother who is unable to care for them due to a mental condition in a hut near the coastal port of Sibenik.
The hut, which serves as the children’s […]

Charges Filed against 11 Persons for Setting up the Bucje Prison Camp in Croatia’s Pakrac Area

Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – Following an initiative from the association of veterans from Pakrac and Lipik charges were filed against 11 persons believed to have had commanding responsibility in the establishment of the Bucje prison camp during the Homeland war.
Some 250 detainees from the West Slavonia area had been kept there.
The documents for the […]

Shop Assistant Finds Venomous Snake in Banana Box

Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – A shop assistant in the coastal city of Split had suffered a terrible shock and had a lucky break, when she opened a box of bananas only to find a snake in it.
The grey and brown snake, which is some 30 centimetres long, had fled from the box as soon […]