SARAJEVO, Sept 24 (Hina) - The police chief of the Serb-controlled part of Sarajevo, Zeljko Markovic, was killed in his family house in Sokolac on Monday morning, it was said in the Bosnian capital on Tuesday.
SARAJEVO, Sept 24 (Hina) - The police chief of the Serb-controlled
part of Sarajevo, Zeljko Markovic, was killed in his family house in
Sokolac on Monday morning, it was said in the Bosnian capital on
Tuesday. #L#
Unidentified persons shot and killed Markovic from an automatic
weapon while he was in the house with his wife and two-year-old
daughter.
Markovic was known as a person who invested great effort in the
establishment of law and order and combating crime, said Oleg
Milisic, spokesman for the Office of the High Representative in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Markovic was the chief of police which controlled a large area from
a Sarajevo suburb which is in the Bosnian Serb entity to eastern
Bosnia. For years after the war, this part of Bosnia has been known
as a stronghold of various criminal gangs.
Two years ago, an assistant Bosnian Serb entity interior minister,
Ljubisa Savic aka Mauzer, was killed in a similar fashion. Mauzer
was a close associate of Biljana Plavsic, at the time the president
of Republika Srpska.
The Mauzer assassination has not been solved. An attempt on the life
of Zeljko Kopanj, the owner of the Banja Luka-based "Nezavisne
novine" paper, who miraculously survived a car bomb explosion, has
not been solved either.
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