ZADAR, Feb 14 (Hina) - More than 100 residents of Skabrnja, a village near the central Adriatic city of Zadar, rallied after 1700 hours on Saturday protesting against the police questioning of some residents in connection with the
burning of a Serb returnee's house in the nearby village of Biljani Donji.
ZADAR, Feb 14 (Hina) - More than 100 residents of Skabrnja, a village
near the central Adriatic city of Zadar, rallied after 1700 hours on
Saturday protesting against the police questioning of some residents
in connection with the burning of a Serb returnee's house in the
nearby village of Biljani Donji.#L#
The people rallied in front of the house of one of the locals
interviewed, Zlatko Bilaver, the president of the Skabrnja branch of
the Croatian Party of Rights, preventing the police from searching the
house. They said they would not leave until the police left the
village.
The embittered residents told Hina's reporter that police treated
Skabrnja like a terrorist nest.
They say the Biljani Donji arson was planted and that they have
nothing to do with it. They maintain that the president of the Serb
People's Council, Milorad Pupovac, is provoking them and blaming
Skabrnja.
Zadar police were informed earlier this week that between February 1
and 7 an unidentified perpetrator had set fire to the house of Serb
returnee Dusan Lakic, reconstructed late last year.
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