Margetic has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for publishing in the press a testimony of a protected witness.
The Zagreb Police Department said at a news conference this evening that today it received an order by a Zagreb County Court investigating judge to take all necessary measures to prevent any attempt to publish, in whole or in part, audio recordings and transcripts of a testimony of a protected witness in the trial of Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic at the Hague tribunal.
As two men blocked the entrance to the building housing the association's offices, the police used measures of coercion to enter the building, after which they arrested Margetic without using force and took him to the Zagreb Police Department to establish possession of forbidden materials, including audio recordings and transcripts of testimonies of a protected witness, police officials said.
The two men against whom the police used measures of coercion were taken to the police station so that the police could establish the circumstances in which measures of coercion were taken, police officials said, adding that the procedure was still under way.
HVIDRA representatives claimed that the police had overstepped their powers by entering their offices without a search warrant and using excessive force against Pandza and Jurendic.