POLICE ARREST MAN WHO THREATENED TO KILL PRESIDENT, PM

ZAGREB, June 9 (Hina) - The police have arrested the person who on Monday made an anonymous phone call to the Zadar police threatening to kill President Stjepan Mesic and Prime Minister Ivica Racan during today's meeting with Pope John Paul II in Zadar, officials at the Interior Ministry stated. #L# The arrested man is from the area of Rijeka and during arrest the police found on him the cell phone from which he called Zadar police, ministry spokeswoman Zinka Bardic said. She did not reveal the identity of the arrested man or the location where he was found. In a joint operation which lasted less than three hours, the police and the Counter-Intelligence Service located the cell phone from which death threats were made against the president and the prime minister and discovered and arrested its owner. The criminal act of threat which causes more intense anxiety among citizens, which is what the police have estimated happened in this case, is punished with prison sentences in the duration of three months to up to three years. (hina) rml sb