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Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – The Split police have arrested a 75-year-old widow on charges of sexual harassment of her 86-year-old neighbour.
The harassed man has said that he had been persecuted by the woman for the past 20 years, but the attacks increased over the past four years since his wife died.
Suffering from mental illness, […]

Zagreb, April 10 (CP) – The Serbian war crimes prosecution has indicted Milorad Pejic for war crimes committed at the Ovcara pig farm near Vukovar in 1991.
Pejic, a 39-year-old locksmith from Vukovar who has become a British citizen and lives in Britian is charged with taking part in the killings of 200 Croatian POWs at […]

Zagreb, April 10 (CP) – An unknown assailant has shot at the owner of Croatia’s Nacional weekly Ivo Pukanic just before midnight on Wednesday not far from Pukanic’s home narrowly missing him.
The attack happened as Pukanic was heading for his flat. The shots missed Pukanic and one of them ended up in a shop window. […]

Zagreb, April 9 (CP) – The wife of Zagreb’s police chief Marijan Benko is left without her computer following her car being broken into and her laptop stolen.
Although it is a matter of common sense to place valuables out of sight of potential robbers when a car is parked, this bit of knowledge eluded the […]

Zagreb, April 8 (CP) – Following the brawl of rival gangs and the death of a youth some three weeks ago in one of Zagreb’s most beautiful centrally positioned parks Ribnjak, the city authorities have decided to introduce a 24-hour watch of the park.
The job vacancies have already been put out and it is now […]

 Zagreb, April 7 (CP) –The trial of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac resumed this morning at the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague with a closed session to protect the identity of a prosecution witness.
Defence teams for the generals objected to holding a closed session.
The trial of general Gotovin, […]

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) – After a shootout with the police and killing a riot policeman ret. Gen. Ivan Korade has killed himself in his summer home in Velika Veternicka in Croatia’s Zagorje area.
Korade, who has been charged with four counts of murder, has been found dead in his summer home after he had managed […]

Zagreb, April 3 (CP) – A policeman has died and several more are believed to have been injured in a shootout on the property owned by ret. Gen. Ivan Korade who has been avoiding police arrest for a week now.
The media are reporting that the shootout happened during an attempt to capture Korade by a […]

Zagreb, April (CP) — Ret. Croatian army general Ivan Korade has been charged with quadruple murder following the killing spree in his village of six days ago and for the abduction of a woman and injuring of another man.
The abducted woman is the mother of two men who Korade had a fight this past summer.
The […]

Zagreb, March 30 (CP) – The media are claiming that the runaway ret. Gen. Ivan Korade has been located overnight through the use of a thermovision camera in woods close to his home in Velika Veternicka in the Krapina area.
Some 500-strong police presence is said to have encircled Korade’s home in the village in hope […]