ZAGREB, Feb 19 (Hina) - Interior Minister Sime Lucin has forwarded a note to the Ministry of Justice, disgruntled over the circumstances surrounding the granting of daily leave to Srdjan Mladjan, a double murder convict, particularly
given that this is not the first time something like this happens. In the note, Lucin demands that the Justice Ministry establish who was responsible for the oversight, stressing it is imperative to put an end to the practice used in prisons. Lucin maintains the police did not okay daily leave for the convict, with the explanation that Mladjan was a very dangerous person. Mladjan, who was serving a ten-year sentence in Pozega, was granted daily leave on Feb. 16. Police began looking for him after he failed to return by the appointed time that evening. Before surrendering to the police in Zagreb on Monday evening, he killed police officer Milenko Vranjkovic. The union of civil and
ZAGREB, Feb 19 (Hina) - Interior Minister Sime Lucin has forwarded a
note to the Ministry of Justice, disgruntled over the circumstances
surrounding the granting of daily leave to Srdjan Mladjan, a double
murder convict, particularly given that this is not the first time
something like this happens.
In the note, Lucin demands that the Justice Ministry establish who
was responsible for the oversight, stressing it is imperative to
put an end to the practice used in prisons.
Lucin maintains the police did not okay daily leave for the convict,
with the explanation that Mladjan was a very dangerous person.
Mladjan, who was serving a ten-year sentence in Pozega, was granted
daily leave on Feb. 16. Police began looking for him after he failed
to return by the appointed time that evening. Before surrendering
to the police in Zagreb on Monday evening, he killed police officer
Milenko Vranjkovic.
The union of civil and public servants said on Tuesday the
Vranjkovic murder indicated the Croatian prison and justice
systems were crumbling.
"We resent the system and laws enabling pathological people to be
released from prison because of exemplary conduct and giving them
the chance to commit murder again," the union said in a statement.
The police union regrets and resents the Vranjkovic murder, and
demands the immediate replacement of senior Interior Ministry
officials who, it says in a statement, are indirectly responsible.
Supreme Court president Ivica Crnic forwarded a telegram to
Interior Minister Lucin, expressing condolences over the
Vranjkovic murder.
The sacrifice Vranjkovic made while performing the honourable,
responsible, and difficult job of protecting people and the
constitutional order points to the complexity of the social
situation and the need for all state bodies to do everything to
effectively prevent and adequately punish such and other crimes,
Crnic said in the telegram.
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