ZAGREB, Jan 2 (Hina) - Deputy State Prosecutor Petar Puliselic told Hina on Tuesday that the Croatian State Prosecution had no knowledge of the possible arrest of retired General Mirko Norac. On 30 December, the 'Slobodna Dalmacija'
daily quoted sources close to the State Prosecutor's office that Gen. Norac might be apprehended in early January on the basis of the objective responsibility in the case of missing ethnic Serbs from Gospic and their elimination in 1991. Owing to those events, a pre-trial process has been conducted against Tihomir Oreskovic and another four Gospic citizens in the seaport of Rijeka for four months. Puliselic also refuted allegations published in the same article of that daily which speculated that " General Ante Gotovina will be accused of to the excessive use of artillery in the liberation of (the central town of) Knin, while General Ivan Cermak will be accused of even
ZAGREB, Jan 2 (Hina) - Deputy State Prosecutor Petar Puliselic told
Hina on Tuesday that the Croatian State Prosecution had no
knowledge of the possible arrest of retired General Mirko Norac.
On 30 December, the 'Slobodna Dalmacija' daily quoted sources close
to the State Prosecutor's office that Gen. Norac might be
apprehended in early January on the basis of the objective
responsibility in the case of missing ethnic Serbs from Gospic and
their elimination in 1991.
Owing to those events, a pre-trial process has been conducted
against Tihomir Oreskovic and another four Gospic citizens in the
seaport of Rijeka for four months.
Puliselic also refuted allegations published in the same article of
that daily which speculated that " General Ante Gotovina will be
accused of to the excessive use of artillery in the liberation of
(the central town of) Knin, while General Ivan Cermak will be
accused of events in the area of Knin in the wake of the 'Storm'
operation."
Puliselic said he had no knowledge, except what he read in the
media, of possible instigation of processes against the
aforementioned generals.
(hina) ms