MOSTAR, July 1 (Hina) - Commenting on the fact that he was listed among personae non gratae in the European Union, Petar Krasic, a Franciscan priest from the southern Bosnian village of Masna Luka, said on Tuesday it was a
"farce".
MOSTAR, July 1 (Hina) - Commenting on the fact that he was listed
among personae non gratae in the European Union, Petar Krasic, a
Franciscan priest from the southern Bosnian village of Masna Luka,
said on Tuesday it was a "farce". #L#
"This is a farce. This is an act of people who have evil intentions,"
Krasic told Hina over the telephone, adding he had not been formally
informed he had been blacklisted by the EU.
Asked to comment on accusations that he had helped people indicted
by the Hague war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and media
speculations that Ante Gotovina had been hiding in the Masna Luka
Franciscan monastery, Krasic said it was all nonsense.
Krasic is the only Bosnian Croat on an EU list of 14 people said to be
helping war crimes indictees which Paddy Ashdown, the
international community's High Representative to Bosnia-
Herzegovina, released today. The others on the list are Bosnian
Serbs, among them the wife and son of Radovan Karadzic.
Bosnia-Herzegovina media have been speculating that Gotovina has
been secretly seen in Krasic's company and has been hiding in the
Masna Luka Franciscan monastery.
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