The spokeswoman Marina Kraljevic Gudelj on Friday evening confirmed that Kosta, who lives in Split, had reported the damage done to her car on 9 November.
"The police have not offered additional protection, given that Kosta did not ask for that nor were requirement met for such a course of action," the spokeswoman said. As soon as Kosta reported the damage on her car, the police conducted an on-the-scene investigation.
Kraljevic-Gudelj explained that those requirements cover situations when the life of person in question is seriously threatened and there must be reports on received threats. This was not case with Kosta nor the lawyer asked for the police protection, the spokeswoman added.
Some media have reported that the Split-based lawyer has received threats over the phone due to her engagement in the case of Bosnian Croat indictee Ivica Rajic, who recently concluded a plea bargain with the International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
According to the media, Kosta said that this was not the first time for her car to be damaged.
She refused to comment on the case.
Kosta is the lawyer for Rajic, a Bosnian Croat wartime commander, who pleaded guilty at the Hague war crimes tribunal in late October to grave breaches of the Geneva conventions committed during the Croat-Muslim war in 1993. On that occasion Rajic also confirmed in a plea agreement with the prosecution that Croatia had been involved in the international armed conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Rajic, who commanded Croatian Defence Council (HVO) troops in Kiseljak, 20 kilometres west of Sarajevo, agreed under the plea agreement that the prosecution evidence would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that "at all times relevant to the amended indictment (from 1 October to 30 December 1993), a state of international armed conflict existed in Bosnia and Herzegovina involving the independent State of the Republic of Croatia and its government, armed forces and representatives in an armed conflict against Bosnian Muslims on the territory of the independent State of Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Under the plea agreement, the 47-year-old Rajic agreed to "full and substantial cooperation with the prosecutor," which, according to Prosecutor Kenneth Scott, meant giving true testimony in some other cases.