THE HAGUE, July 24 (Hina) - Police technician from Kladovo Bosko Radojkovic said in The Hague on Wednesday, during the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, that Kladovo police created a story about Curs in order to
calm down citizens who saw a freezing truck with corpses in the Danube river near Kladovo.
THE HAGUE, July 24 (Hina) - Police technician from Kladovo Bosko
Radojkovic said in The Hague on Wednesday, during the trial of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, that Kladovo police
created a story about Curs in order to calm down citizens who saw a
freezing truck with corpses in the Danube river near Kladovo. #L#
"Considering the fact that people started to talk about it a
lot...we agreed to create the story about Curds," Radojkovic said.
During yesterday's cross examination, Milosevic disputed the
testimony of Serb police captain Dragan Karleusa, who headed a task
force to investigate reports of the freezer truck containing 86
bodies that was believed to have come from Kosovo.
The ex-Yugoslav President said that corpses found in the freezer
truck, sent to the bottom of the Danube river in the spring of 1999,
could have been illegal immigrants smuggled from Romania by a local
criminal organisation, and not Kosovo Albanians. The ex-Yugoslav
president said Serb authorities publicised the discovery of buried
corpses near Belgrade to prepare the public for his extradition to
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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