MOSTAR, June 24 (Hina) - More than 300 members and sympathisers of the Ravna Gora Chetnik movement, who were believed to pose a security threat during Pope John Paul II's visit to Banja Luka, were under special police control and the
police were ready to neutralise them at any moment if necessary, said Bosnian police officials who secured the pope's visit, speaking on condition of anonymity.
MOSTAR, June 24 (Hina) - More than 300 members and sympathisers of
the Ravna Gora Chetnik movement, who were believed to pose a
security threat during Pope John Paul II's visit to Banja Luka, were
under special police control and the police were ready to
neutralise them at any moment if necessary, said Bosnian police
officials who secured the pope's visit, speaking on condition of
anonymity. #L#
There is information that radical members of the Ravna Gora Chetnik
movement had planned to assassinate the pope during his visit to
Banja Luka, but such plans were thwarted with timely police action,
including arrests, the police officials said, confirming reports
in today's issues of the Sarajevo press on Chetniks' plans to
assassinate the pope.
The same sources also claim that there is suspicion that members of
the movement planned to assassinate the pope during his recent
visit to Osijek and Djakovo in Croatia.
The police are analysing, in cooperation with international
structures, the files of a number of leaders of the Ravna Gora
Chetnik movement and people who finance it on suspicion of links
with some radical Islamic groups, the police officials said.
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