LJUBLJANA, April 8 (Hina) - Slovene police confirmed on Thursday that an incident occurred at the Croatian-Slovene border crossing Macelj the night before when a Slovene police patrol crossed on the Croatian side of the border in an
attempt to stop a Croatian car.
LJUBLJANA, April 8 (Hina) - Slovene police confirmed on Thursday that
an incident occurred at the Croatian-Slovene border crossing Macelj
the night before when a Slovene police patrol crossed on the Croatian
side of the border in an attempt to stop a Croatian car.#L#
The spokesman of Slovenia's Maribor Police Department, Boris Bajec,
told the Slovene STA news agency force was used on the Croatian side,
but before the Macelj crossing, because the Croatian car, which
Slovene police tried to stop after the driver overtook a line of cars
in the direction of Croatia, refused to stop. Two police and the
driver were injured when the car eventually stopped, he said.
Bajec did not comment on allegations that Slovene police smashed the
car's side windows. He said the proceedings launched in Croatia in
connection with the incident were a matter for Croatian bodies, and
added that Slovenia's police would charge the Croatian driver with
preventing an official person from performing his official duty.
The Croatian Interior Ministry said in a statement earlier today that
when the Slovene police officers stopped the car, the driver and his
son locked themselves in, which prompted the police to break the car's
side windows. This resulted in a fight.
(Hina) ha