LJUBLJANA, Aug 19 (Hina) - A resident of the Croatian hamlet of Mlini, which is close to the Slovene border, who does not recognise Croatian jurisdiction in the area, on Monday pressed charges against a group of men from Umag,
Croatia, who on Sunday took off a Slovene flag from his house, replacing it with a Croatian one.
LJUBLJANA, Aug 19 (Hina) - A resident of the Croatian hamlet of
Mlini, which is close to the Slovene border, who does not recognise
Croatian jurisdiction in the area, on Monday pressed charges
against a group of men from Umag, Croatia, who on Sunday took off a
Slovene flag from his house, replacing it with a Croatian one. #L#
Josko Joras, a councillor in the Slovene town of Piran, pressed the
charges in Ljubljana, claiming his house is part of Slovenia as long
as Croatia and Slovenia failed to sign a border agreement.
A spokesman for Slovenia's police, Miran Koren, confirmed to
national media that the police had been notified about Joras's
charges and forwarded them to the district prosecutor in Koper,
which was confirmed by Joras's attorney Daniel Starman.
Slovene police also said that they could not intervene in the
incident which occurred yesterday, even though Joras had asked them
to.
According to Slovene Radio, the only thing the police could have
done to protect Joras on the "contentious territory" would have
been to "forcibly cross the border" or intervene by helicopter, an
assessment echoed by the state news agency STA .
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