ZAGREB, Jan 10 (Hina) - The Croatian Ministry for the Family Affairs,War Veterans and Inter-Generational Solidarity on Tuesday reacted onlast night's police raid of the Croatian Disabled War VeteransAssociation (HVIDRA) offices in
Zagreb, saying that competent bodiesmust must urgently establish facts so as to see if the police hadexceeded their authorities.
ZAGREB, Jan 10 (Hina) - The Croatian Ministry for the Family
Affairs, War Veterans and Inter-Generational Solidarity on Tuesday reacted on
last night's police raid of the Croatian Disabled War Veterans Association
(HVIDRA) offices in Zagreb, saying that competent bodies must must urgently
establish facts so as to see if the police had exceeded their authorities. "According to available information and following the the principle that
nobody can be groundlessly physically threatened, the ministry believes that
the police conduct in the said case was unacceptable," the ministry said in a
statement today.
Minister Jadranka Kosor requested an urgent investigation and measures
against those responsible.
The Croatian police on Monday evening raided the offices HVIDRA in
Zagreb and arrested the head of the association's branch, Ivan Pandza, HVIDRA
member Ante Jurendic, and journalist Domagoj Margetic, who was expected to show
a recording with President Stjepan Mesic's testimony at the Hague tribunal in
the association's offices.