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Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – An off-duty policeman got into a fight with an Italian man who was in the company of a 24-year-old woman and shot them both in the legs and arms, only to then shoot himself in the head on Saturday near the Croatian coastal resort of Opatija.

The policemen 43-year-old policeman died in a Rijeka hospital about an hour after the incident.

It is not clear what the scuffle was about, but what is known at this point is that the policemen and the Italian got into an argument at a restaurant car park and the policemen shot both him and the Croatian woman in the limbs and then shot himself in the head.

The injured Italian managed to get into the restaurant and call for help.

The policeman had been off duty at the time of the incident and used his official gun in the shooting.

Zagreb, April 27 (CP) – The body of a chained man with a huge gash to his head was found at the lake Jarun nudist beach in Zagreb on Sunday afternoon.

A CSI team is on the scene and the police cannot tell as yet whether the man committed suicide or whether he was killed.

It is believed that the body belongs to a man who went missing some three weeks ago and who threatened to commit suicide. There are indications that the man might have entered the water chained with bricks weighing the chains down and shot himself in the head.

The man is said to be in his fifties.

Zagreb, April 27 (CP) – The details of Dinamo Zagreb’s captain midfielder Luka Modric’s transfer are surfacing with Dinamo to receive €25 mln and Modric to enjoy a € 3 Mln annual pay.

Modric was sold to Tottenham on Friday and is already in the UK where he is undergoing rigorous medical checks.

It is interesting that Dinamo is not obliged to pay any tax for this latest transfer or the earlier ones of Vedran Corluka or Eduardo Da Silva, since Dinamo is structured as an association of citizens and such organisations do not pay taxes. The taxes would only be paid if Dinamo were to use the money to finance something outside football, as is envisaged by the Croatian legislation, as all of the transfers are seen as exports.

Dinamo only pays a 20-percent profit tax on the difference between the earnings and expenditure and if it posts a loss, it is not to pay anything.

Zdravko Mamic, the executive deputy president of the Croatian champion Dinamo has sold a total of five of Dinamo’s prime players for a total of € 58.5 million.

Over the past seven years Mamic and Dinamo have raked in €87 million from transfers of the club’s players abroad. Dinamo also receives some 40 million kuna per annum as donations from the city of Zagreb.

Zagreb, April 27 (CP) – The Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia (IGH) has closed several deals in Morocco totalling €20 million.

The IGH has captured deals that include the construction of a hotel and housing units, the overall investment standing at €1.5 billion.

The contracts are to be signed soon and IGH engineers have already toured the future building sites in Rabat and Casablanca.

Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – Some 14 passengers were taken off the Amsterdam-Zagreb Croatia Airlines flight on Saturday, after flight attendant falls ill and the remaining three flight attendants could only care for 150 passengers in line with the international flight regulations.

The plane setting off from the Amsterdam Schipol airport had to ensure that 14 volunteers are taken off the plane and it took a whole hour to persuade some of the passengers to volunteer and take the next flight and a compensation.

The flight attendant who had fallen ill is feeling well after treatment for an allergic reaction at an Amsterdam hospital.

The plane took off two hours later than scheduled and passengers having to take connecting flights to Sarajevo and Split had planes waiting for them in Zagreb, as requested by the Amsterdam plane.

Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – Ivo Sanader has been re-elected to the post of Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) leader for the fourth time at the party’s 12th general convention on Saturday.

Jadranka Kosor has also kept her position as party deputy president.

Out of the 3,281 delegates, some 2,467 had voted in favour of Sanader retaining his post.

HDZ is currently ruling Croatia in coalition with the Peasant Party (HSS) and the Croatian Social-Liberals (HSLS).

Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – The members of the Croatian Mountain Rescue Team (HGSS) managed to rescue an injured Italian climber at the Paklenica national park.

The Zadar alert centre was informed on Friday evening of an Italian climber breaking his leg while climbing at the Anica Kuk section of the Paklenica national park and passed on the information to the rescue team.

The rescue effort was successfully completed in the early hours of Saturday.

The Italian climber is now being cared for at the Zadar hospital.

Zagreb, April 26 (CP) – The Dinamo Zagreb soccer club captain Luka Modric has become a member of Tottenham late last night, as he signed a 5-year deal for a fantastic € 26 million!

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City were all said to have had an eye on Modric, but Spurs captured him making a bank-breaking offer that Dinamo could not refuse.

Modric became internationally recognized during the EURO 2008 qualifications, where he was one of the driving forces behind the good games Croatia had presented, among other victories, knocking England out of the tournament.
 

Zagreb, April 25 (CP) – The Austrian authorities have decided to ban the concert planned for June 7 by Croatian singer/songwriter Marko ‘Thompson’ Perkovic.

The concert planned to be held in St. Andrae in south Carinthia, prior to the start of EURO 2008 was deemed as a heightened risk to public security, as it could spark clashes between football supporters.

The Austrian APA news agency reporting on the ban has explained that the Thompson’s lyrics had neo-fascist overtones and some even came from the Ustashe repertoire.  It also describes them as controversial and some as being clearly neo-fascist.

Another Thompson concert that was to be held in the Zurich canton in Switzerland on June 11 has also been banned for the same reasons.

Zagreb, April 25 (CP) – The results of the post-mortem on the Zagorje killer and former Croatian army general Ivan Korade have shown that he had committed suicide after he had killed five people.

The police spokesperson Krunoslav Borovec has confirmed that the results of the autopsy had confirmed Korade had killed himself, but would not confirm whether Korade was drunk when he committed, suicide, as some of the media reported that a number of hard liquor bottles were found next to his body.

Former Croatian army general and war hero Korade, had gone on a killing spree at the end of February, killing five of his fellow villagers, friends and a policemen only to commit suicide on March 3 after being cornered in a house.