"The situation is very serious," Djapic told Hina over the phone after visiting Glavas at Remetinec with Glavas's son Filip.
Glavas has been on a hunger strike for five days, he is drinking minimal water and the effects are already visible, said Djapic, adding that Glavas said he would continue with the strike until a war crimes investigation into him called the Sellotape Case was called off.
Djapic said he would propose that Glavas and the main witness who accused him in the case be submitted to a lie detector test. He underlined that Glavas dismissed any connection with the Sellotape Case and that he would not allow to be brought to court because of someone's fabrications.
Djapic said Glavas showed willingness to prove his innocence in the Garage Case as well. In both cases Glavas is suspected of involvement in the killing of civilians in Osijek in 1991.
Glavas has said he is refusing food because he does not want his son to live with the stigma that his father is a war criminal, because of the Homeland War, notably in Osijek, and because of his 1,000 fellow fighters, said Djapic. He added he was shocked to see that there was no way to talk Glavas out of the hunger strike.
Asked what his next step as Osijek Mayor would be, Djapic said he would certainly do something and that there was no problem with the functioning of the city government. He added Glavas would remain chairman of the City Council.
Glavas's son Filip said he appealed to his father to stop the hunger strike, but that he would not do it.
The Zagreb County Court has been conducting investigative proceedings against Glavas and Krunoslav Fehir since May this year on suspicion that they committed war crimes against Serb civilians in the eastern city of Osijek in late 1991. The investigation relates to the torture of three civilians and the murder of another two in the autumn of 1991. Fehir, a former member of the First Osijek Battalion which in 1991 was under Glavas's command, previously admitted to having shot a prisoner and testified about Glavas's alleged involvement in crimes against Serb civilians.
On Monday, 23 September, Glavas was stripped of immunity by the relevant parliamentary body due to his suspected involvement in the abduction and execution of Serb civilians on the Drava River bank in late 1991. The Osijek County Court has launched an investigation into six members of the Independent Uskok Company for that crime, which is also known as the Sellotape Case.