OSIJEK, Oct 2 (Hina) - Antun Gudelj, for whom the Croatian judicial authorities on Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for triple murder and attempted murder, is willing to return to Croatia, Gudelj's attorney Nediljko
Resetar told Hina on Tuesday evening. On July 1, 1991 Gudelj killed Osijek police superintendent Josip Reihl Kir and two local politicians and wounded another man at a police check-point near the eastern village of Tenja. After the murder Gudelj fled the country and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia. While reportedly trying to return voluntarily from Australia to Croatia in 1996 for a re-trial, Gudelj was arrested in Frankfurt and handed over to Croatian judicial bodies. The trial was not renewed because Gudelj was acquitted in line with a 1997 decision of the Supreme Court to apply the General Amnesty Law to his case. Attorney Resetar said Gudelj was willin
OSIJEK, Oct 2 (Hina) - Antun Gudelj, for whom the Croatian judicial
authorities on Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for
triple murder and attempted murder, is willing to return to
Croatia, Gudelj's attorney Nediljko Resetar told Hina on Tuesday
evening.
On July 1, 1991 Gudelj killed Osijek police superintendent Josip
Reihl Kir and two local politicians and wounded another man at a
police check-point near the eastern village of Tenja. After the
murder Gudelj fled the country and was sentenced to 20 years in
prison in absentia.
While reportedly trying to return voluntarily from Australia to
Croatia in 1996 for a re-trial, Gudelj was arrested in Frankfurt and
handed over to Croatian judicial bodies.
The trial was not renewed because Gudelj was acquitted in line with
a 1997 decision of the Supreme Court to apply the General Amnesty
Law to his case.
Attorney Resetar said Gudelj was willing to return to Croatia and
did not feel guilty.
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