ZAGREB ZAGREB, Aug 7 (Hina) - Two unidentified youths have beaten up and slightly injured an 11-year old son of an Egyptian Embassy official in Zagreb, police said on Thursday. The boy was assaulted outside his apartment in Zagreb's
Tresnjevka district at about 1700 hours on Wednesday. The assailants started punching him and kicking him, but the boy managed to escape. He was admitted to the Clinic for Children's Diseases where he was found to have sustained slight injuries. The boy told the police that one attacker was about 22 years old, about 190 cm tall, with a strong build and a shaven head, wearing black trousers and boots. The other was about 25 years old, about 180 cm tall, with a medium build, wearing a T-shirt with the symbol of Zagreb's Dinamo football club and a peaked cap. Asked if this was yet another attack on foreigners by skinheads, police spokeswoman Stanka Saraja said that there was not enou
ZAGREB, Aug 7 (Hina) - Two unidentified youths have beaten up and
slightly injured an 11-year old son of an Egyptian Embassy official
in Zagreb, police said on Thursday.
The boy was assaulted outside his apartment in Zagreb's Tresnjevka
district at about 1700 hours on Wednesday. The assailants started
punching him and kicking him, but the boy managed to escape. He was
admitted to the Clinic for Children's Diseases where he was found to
have sustained slight injuries.
The boy told the police that one attacker was about 22 years old,
about 190 cm tall, with a strong build and a shaven head, wearing
black trousers and boots. The other was about 25 years old, about
180 cm tall, with a medium build, wearing a T-shirt with the symbol
of Zagreb's Dinamo football club and a peaked cap.
Asked if this was yet another attack on foreigners by skinheads,
police spokeswoman Stanka Saraja said that there was not enough
evidence to confirm this, but that the assailants were evidently
persons who "cannot tolerate people who are different from them".
The police were notified by the boy's father.
The Egyptian Embassy told Hina that their official was at the police
station for an interview. Saraja confirmed this, but declined to
further comment on the case. The police and the embassy declined to
reveal the identity of the Egyptian official.
Saraja said that an investigation was under way, and appealed to the
public for assistance in identifying the assailants.
This was the third assault on foreigners in Zagreb in the last ten
days.
On Wednesday, three unidentified Dinamo supporters attacked a 47-
year-old Austrian national of Pakistani origin, who has arrived in
Zagreb as a tourist with his wife and son. The attackers managed to
escape.
Late last month, ten black-clad youths with short haircuts beat up
22-year-old Egyptian student Emad Hadami at the Cibona Tower in
downtown Zagreb. The media attributed the attack to skinheads, but
no evidence has been found to corroborate this, because none of the
attackers has been identified.
(hina) vm