ZAGREB/RIJEKA, March 24 (Hina) - Custody has been requested for Ivica Rozic of the so-called Gospic Group, who was earlier today acquitted by Rijeka County Court. Chief Prosecutor Mladen Bajic told Hina that custody was requested for
Rozic as part of an investigation into allegations that he had planted bombs in the homes of Serb returnees in the Gospic area.
ZAGREB/RIJEKA, March 24 (Hina) - Custody has been requested for
Ivica Rozic of the so-called Gospic Group, who was earlier today
acquitted by Rijeka County Court. Chief Prosecutor Mladen Bajic
told Hina that custody was requested for Rozic as part of an
investigation into allegations that he had planted bombs in the
homes of Serb returnees in the Gospic area. #L#
If the court accepts the motion, Rozic will be taken into custody in
Rijeka, following his acquittal in the trial of the Gospic Group
today.
The investigation against Rozic, who is suspected of planting 13
explosive devices which killed six Serb returnees from 1996 through
1998 and murdering a woman from Ostrovica in September 1998, was
launched last September by the Gospic County Court.
The investigation is not connected to the trial against the Gospic
Group, whose members were indicted for war crimes against civilians
in the Gospic and Karlobag areas in October 1991.
The court of first instance in Rijeka acquitted Rozic from
accusations that he had abducted three Serbs from Karlobag with the
help of unidentified Croatian soldiers and killed them in Crni
Dabar on Mount Velebit, under orders from Tihomir Oreskovic and
Mirko Norac.
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