"If The Hague is referring this to Croatia, it means that we can lead and close in Croatia even the most complicated cases," Mesic told the press after opening the Third International Congress of Nurses.
The president maintained that trials at the Hague tribunal were nearing completion and that the Croatian judiciary was qualified enough to take over cases which required a lot of knowledge.
Mesic said the institutions should do their job and not be politicised when it came to criminal proceedings.
"We all must be equal before the law and answer if someone did something and if they didn't, they should be cleared of all responsibility," said Mesic.
Jutarnji List daily said today that chief state prosecutor Mladen Bajic confirmed receiving from the Hague tribunal's Office of the Prosecutor in mid-February evidence and data collected about war crimes in eastern Slavonia, Pakracka Poljana, and possibly the Zagreb area.
Bajic's deputy Josip Cule told Vecernji List that this was not a referred indictment, as in the Ademi-Norac case, but a pile of material the Hague tribunal's investigators had been collecting for years. He said the material was being examined and that additional material had been requested from the UN court.
The State Prosecutor's Office declined to speculate or announce who might be suspected or how many victims there might be, Vecernji List said.