SPLIT, Oct 31 (Hina) - Interior Minister Sime Lucin said in an interview with Slobodna Dalmacija daily of Thursday that police would arrest General Janko Bobetko, who has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, if it
received a court order to do so.
SPLIT, Oct 31 (Hina) - Interior Minister Sime Lucin said in an
interview with Slobodna Dalmacija daily of Thursday that police
would arrest General Janko Bobetko, who has been indicted by the UN
war crimes tribunal at The Hague, if it received a court order to do
so. #L#
"If we receive an arrest warrant from the competent court, police
will do their job independently of whether 'chestnut pickers' are
in front of his house'. It is entirely irrelevant for the Interior
Ministry and the police what they are doing in front of Bobetko's
house. Some assume they are guarding Bobetko, only I don't know who
from," Lucin said referring to war veterans who have been stationed
in front of the general's house for days. Asked recently by a
reporter what they were doing there, they said they were "picking
chestnuts".
As for reports that another Croatian Hague tribunal indictee, Ante
Gotovina, had been spotted in Croatia, the interior minister said
that every report was checked but that to date, none had proved
correct.
Lucin said that shortly before the Hague tribunal's chief
prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visited Zagreb last week, the Interior
Ministry in one day received three reports from allegedly reliable
sources which were also delivered to the media, and probably to the
tribunal, but which eventually proved incorrect.
As for the Boka Star ship, on which explosive was seized while it was
docked in Rijeka, Lucin said he could accept assessments that the
entire region was involved in the smuggling. "But I claim with full
responsibility that Croatia is not involved," he said, adding that
Croatia's action had confirmed the country's ability to tackle such
delicate matters.
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