Croatia Crime News
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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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Zagreb, March 16 (CP) – A group of masked assailants attacked two Serb nationals overnight while they were sleeping in their car bearing Novi Sad number plates at the Tifon service station on the Zagreb-Split motorway.
The attack occurred around 4 a.m. and there are reports of the car being damaged.
The Ogulin police have as yet […]
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Zagreb, March 16 (CP) – Some 20 bicycles were stolen between Wednesday night and Thursday morning from a top Croatian hotel in the northern coastal resort of Porec.
The robbers broke through the chained metal cages where the bikes belonging to German and Austrian riders competing in the Istria Spring race that was held there at […]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Zagreb, March 14 (CP) – The fourth day of the trial of three Croatian generals, Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, a prosecution witness said she personally did not witness any crimes being committed, but heard of this happening.
The trial is to continue on April 7 after a 3-week recess.
The ICTY judiciary council has […]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Zagreb, March 14 (CP) – Slovene drug dealer boss Kristijan Kamenik who is currently on trial for quadruple murder has been arrested and suspected of leading an illegal drugs smuggling rings in the Rijeka area.
Although Kamenik had his own people coming in to contact with the drugs, he himself made sure he was never close […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Zagreb, March 12 (CP) – Following a 7-month operation a special Interior Ministry press conference was held in Rijeka, reporting on the results efforts aimed at busting a heroin-dealing ring in the Rijeka area.
The Briskula operation was coordinated with the State Attorney’s Office.
Some 25 people including three gang leaders were arrested and more than two […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) – Attorney Ante Nobilo, a former ICTY lawyer for Tihomir Blaskic claims that no one in their right mind would deny that war crimes were committed during the war in Croatia and someone needs to be made responsible for them.
Nobilo said this commenting the course of the proceedings at the ICTY […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) — At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague today, trial procedures begin in the case against Croatian generals Gotovina, Markac and Cermak.
The prosecution has announced that it intends to call 134 witnesses, while an unusual 209 working hours has been approved for their questioning.
The general’s attornies […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 10 (CP) – Just a few days before the start of the long-awaited trial of generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, the Croatian government has decided to forward to The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) Interior Ministry documents dating from the time of the Storm operation.
The chief prosecutor in the Storm case, Alan […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Zagreb, March 10 (CP) — The pre-trial conference in the case of Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac ended some half an hour after in began at the ICTY in The Hague on Monday morning.
It was established that the prosecution has the right to present 134 witnesses and put forth its evidence during 210.5 […]
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