DAILY: SJEKIRICA TO APPEAR BEFORE SPANISH INVESTIGATORS ON FRIDAY

SARAJEVO, April 14 (Hina) - A citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sanel Sjekirica, who is believed to be connected with terrorist attacks in Madrid in March, is currently in Sweden, and is willing to turn himself in to Spanish authorities, the Sarajevo-based 'Dnevni Avaz' wrote on Wednesday.#L# The daily quoted Sjekirica on the front page as saying that he would travel to Madrid on Friday and that he had already talked to Spanish investigators on the phone. "I told (Spanish police) that I had nothing to hide and that I will depart from Sweden to Madrid on Friday evening," Sjekirica told the daily. He is currently in Sweden where he is staying with a friend of his, Suada Oric, according to the paper. The first secretary of the Bosnian embassy in Stockholm, Zeljko Grbic, has also talked with Sjekirica who confirmed to him that he is available to Spanish authorities. A key to the entire riddle could by a Bosnian passport which Sjekirica lost. The Spanish police found a Bosnian passport with his name among documents possessed by terrorists who carried out the attacks in Madrid. 'Oslobodjenje', another daily from Sarajevo, reported on Wednesday that the Swedish post services had lost the passport which Sjekirica sent to his mother in Spain last year to extend his visas where he and his mother arrived earlier as Bosnian refugees. Although there were many media allegations on possible links between Sjekirica and Islamic terrorists, Bosnian state officials are very reserved in commenting on the case. Deputy Security Minister Dragan Mektic has said that the Spanish authorities asked only for the checking of Sjekirica's identity and that they gave no explanation whether he might be in any way connected with terrorists. Sources in the Croat-Muslim federal interior ministry said that Spain actually had asked for the confirmation of identities of seven persons, including Sjekirica. (Hina) ms