THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Oct 15 (Hina) - The search of Bosnian Serb intelligence offices, which investigators with the Hague war crimes tribunal and NATO's Stabilisation Force have launched on a number of locations on Wednesday, is aimed at
finding documents which local authorities have been denying the tribunal's prosecutor's office for some time, office spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Oct 15 (Hina) - The search of Bosnian Serb
intelligence offices, which investigators with the Hague war
crimes tribunal and NATO's Stabilisation Force have launched on a
number of locations on Wednesday, is aimed at finding documents
which local authorities have been denying the tribunal's
prosecutor's office for some time, office spokeswoman Florence
Hartmann said. #L#
The results of the operation, which is in the final stage, are not
known yet, she told a regular media briefing at The Hague.
"It's not an arrest operation but more of a search on a number of
locations where, according to our information, the sought
documents are stored."
With assistance from the Stabilisation Force and the European Union
Police Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Hague tribunal's
investigators this morning entered the premises of the Republic of
Srpska Intelligence and Security Service in Banja Luka as well as
its regional offices in Mrkonjic Grad, Trebinje, Prijedor,
Bijeljina, and Zvornik.
The search locations are tightly guarded by the Stabilisation
Force, whose helicopters are also flying over Banja Luka.
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