Addressing the press at the HSP branch in Osijek on Wednesday, Djapic said that yesterday the State Prosecutor's Office committed a very grave omission because "a so-called protected witness publicly said that he had killed yet hasn't been arrested".
Krunoslav Fehir was granted the status of a protected witness at the proposal of the Chief State Prosecutor after he gave a statement to the prosecution accusing independent MP Branimir Glavas of ordering the killing of Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991, when Glavas was chief of the National Defence Office in Osijek.
Djapic said that if someone could say what Fehir said on public television and not be arrested proved that the latest "Osijek case" was politically motivated.
According to Djapic, Glavas is being "publicly prosecuted" and the subject of "a campaign that has nothing to do with normal judicial proceedings".
Djapic said the recent appointment of a new Osijek-Baranja County police chief, Vladimir Faber, and the arrival of a crime squad to help local police investigate allegations of war crimes committed in 1991 and 1992 was insulting for Osijek.
Djapic said he urged Faber yesterday to investigate the killing of a large number of civilians in previously UN-protected areas.
According to Djapic, it was widely accepted that Serb civilians went missing in the early 1990s and that someone should answer for that. He said, however, that Croatian laws were not being applied equally to all because those who started the aggression against Croatia and Osijek "were amnestied of all responsibility for the death of nearly 2,000 Osijek civilians, yet nobody is answering for that".
Djapic said the "Osijek case" was an attempt to discredit certain people and change the character of what was happening in Osijek in 1991, which he added made it seem as though the Croats in Osijek had been waiting for nothing but the war to be able to kill Serbs undisturbed and unpunished.
Djapic said the forthcoming tenth anniversary of Operation Storm in Osijek must clearly show that the citizens of this city did not accept what was happening at the moment.
Asked if the latest events in Osijek would affect the HSP's relationship with the Ivo Sanader Cabinet, Djapic said the HSP "has no special relationship" with the government and had no intention of toppling it now because of Osijek.
"At this stage we don't intend to enter additional conflicts or strain relations. We just want to point out that this is a very wrong policy towards Osijek," Djapic said.