Croatia Crime News
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Zagreb, March 29 (CP) – According to the media, ret. Gen. Ivan Korade is the only possible perpetrator of the four murders that happened in Zagorje on Wednesday and Thursday. According to claims by the media, Korade must have had accomplices, as the man who was killed first, was badly beaten before being killed.
However, the police […]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Zagreb, March 28 (CP) – Retired Croatian army general Ivan Korade is being looked for by some 300 police special forces as he is believed to be involved in the killing of four people in Croatia’s Zagorje region.
Ret. Gen. Ivan Korade, 44, known for his short temper and many incidents over the years has gone […]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Zagreb, March 27 (CP) — A joint operation by the police and USKOK has resulted in the breaking of yet another human trafficking ring with some 10 people being arrested.
Mostly Turkish, Albanian and Kosovo nationals were being smuggled over the Croatian, Serb and Bosnian borders.
One of the arrested is an assistant police commissioner of a […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – Six former members of the National Guard military police 76 battalion have been charged for committing war crimes in the killing of 16 Serb civilians near Pakrac in 1991.
A month ago Damir Kufner and Davor Simic, both commanders of the military police platoon responsible for the killing had been arrested, […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – A car thief from the town of Karlovac was arrested not far from Rijeka suspected of stealing five cars, but his arrest did not go smoothly.
After being cornered near the Novi Vinodolski resort by the Rijeka police, the 39-year-old suspect attempted to run over a policeman and then fled to […]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
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 […]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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 […]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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 […]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Zagreb, March 17 (CP) – A group of robbers have managed to steal up to 15 million kuna from the Split post office branch where money for the whole of the Split and Dalmatia county postal branches is kept.
The robbers managed to overpower three security guards, cuff them and after that went for the clerks […]
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Zagreb, March 16 (CP) – An 18-year-old youth was stabbed to death in a mass brawl in a Zagreb park near a popular night bar on Saturday evening.
The incident happened just minutes before midnight and the 18-year-old had suffered three stab wounds inflicted by a sharp object, most probably a knife.
The brawl began as a […]
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