Croatia Crime News
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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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Zagreb, March 9 (CP) – A 15-year-old girl was shot and seriously by an unknown assailant while she was walking in Maksimir park in Croatia’s capital on Saturday evening.
The girl was taking a stroll with a 29-year-old friend when the shooting came about and was taken to a nearby hospital where she had surgery.
The victim […]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Zagreb, March 9 (CP) – The coastal town of Sibenik Inside nightclub was attacked by unknown assailants throwing explosive devices in the early hours of Sunday.
Croatian Radio Television (HRT) is reporting that this is the second attack on the club over the past year.
Police have said no one was injured in the blast and damage […]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Zagreb, March 7 (CP) – The trial of three Croatian generals at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) begins today in The Hague.
The three are to be tried for war crimes committed during the 1995 operation Storm.
The three generals are accused of taking part in a joint criminal enterprise with the aim […]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Zagreb, March 6 (CP) – The Austrian Supreme Court has confirmed the decision of two Austrian lower courts that ret. Croatian army Gen. Vladimir Zagorec can be extradited to Croatia.
However, the Zagorec defence team is to demand that the procedure on extradition be repeated and it is yet to be decided whether the case will […]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Zagreb, March 6 (CP) — Ret. Gen. Ivan Cermak indicted for war crimes by the ICTY has arrived in The Hague for the start of the Gotovina, Cermak and Markac trial scheduled for March 11. The last pre-trial hearing is to be held on Monday, March 10.
The three Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and […]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Zagreb, March 2 (CP) – The killer of a 24-year-old man in Split who stabbed and killed the victim during a road rage incident on early Saturday morning is arrested.
The 22-year-old is claiming he did not stab the victim, but rather the victim accidentally fell onto the knife blade.
The trouble began when a car carrying […]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Zagreb, March 1 (CP) – A motorist stopped by police in the early hours of Saturday in Zagreb bit a policemen who was running after him, after he tried to flee.
The incident happened in Zagreb’s Heinzelova street at night, when two policemen stopped a driver of a Renault vehicle and once they felt alcohol on […]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Zagreb, March 1 (AP) – The police commissioner Marijan Benko has announced that the operation aimed at arresting paedophiles in Croatia has resulted in one person ending up in custody.
Benko said that in the operation some 180 flats and businesses were searched, some 300 computers, 16,000 CDs and DVDs, 350 videocassettes and numerous photographs were […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (CP) – A coastal town of Zadar teenager and his 42-year-old drug addict mother have been found guilty of pushing drugs on Thursday.
The unlikely pair have been sentenced by the Zadar county court. The mother has been sentenced to five years in prison, while the son who is 19 years old will […]
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