The team issued a statement reading that violent actions described in the anonymous letter which mentioned also General Gotovina " have not been and cannot be planned or carried out in the name or due to the injustice inflicted to General Gotovina".
"The defence team for General Gotovina, his family, and we are convinced that we are conveying the position of the general himself, most resolutely distance themselves form any violent actions, which have not been and cannot be planned or carried out in the name or due to the injustice inflicted to General Gotovina," the statement by the lawyers read.
Editorial boards of some Croatian media on Tuesday received threatening letters, signed by a terrorist network calling itself "Racija Politike" ("Raid on Politics" in an unofficial translation), which assumes responsibility for three recent mine explosions in the Vukovar area.
According to the letters sent to editorial boards of the HTV and RTL television stations and the dailies 'Vecernji List' and '24 Sata', this organisation announces terrorist attacks against state property and politicians.
The letters read that terrorist acts will be carried out "according to political events" and that "politicians must be aware that the security and safety of citizens and tourists are in their hands, namely it depends on the decisions which they are going to make".
"Croatia's national interests must strengthen, and in case that General Ante Gotovina be handed over to the (Hague war crimes) tribunal, Croatia will have to face the biggest terrorist attacks," the threatening letters read.