PERPETRATOR OF SATURDAY'S MURDER IN PULA IS VICTIM'S RELATIVE

PULA, June 24 (Hina) - Istria County Police have established that the suspect of Friday's killing of a Romany, Ramadan Gusani, is his nephew, a 32-year-old man, Zeljko Deconte. Yesterday, Deconte from the street threw a bomb into the Gusani flat in the coastal town of Pula. In the strong explosion which rocked the flat of this Romany family at 02.5 am, 59-year-old Ramadan Gusani lost his life, while his wife sustained light injuries. A spokeswoman for the Istria police on Sunday said the police established that the perpetrator of this attack was Zeljko Deconte (whose previous name used to be Rahman Gusani) who had already criminal records and was a registered drug-addict. At the moment of the attack there were several other persons, mostly children, in the flat but they, fortunately, were not hurt. A local State Prosecutor, Vlatko Nuic, said the motive had not yet been known, but it would be established after an investigative judge interrogated the suspect. In this way, a possibility that skin-heads committed the murder was excluded. Yesterday a leader of the local Romany community expressed fear that skin heads might be the perpetrators of this crime. Establishing that the suspect is the victim's nephew, the police ruled out that possibility. Besides, so far there have been no groups in the area of Pula that declare themselves as skinheads and no such group has been registered, the police spokeswoman Stefanija Prosenjak-Zumber said. At about 10.30 am Saturday also, in a restaurant the suspect Deconte committed larceny when he impudently took away a bank-note of 200 kuna from the hands of the owner of the restaurant. In addition, Deconte is believed to have thrown a hand grenade in the yard of a building in Gabriele Emo Street in Pula on 18 June. In the explosion, he was wounded whereas damage was done to a parked car and the facade of the building, the police spokeswoman said at the new conference in Pula. (hina) ms