SPLIT SPLIT, July 28 (Hina) - Police in the Croatian coastal city of Split on Friday confirmed that representatives of Irish police paid a visit to Split for talks on prevention of international crime and terrorism. "This contact is a
part of a series of regular contacts with western European police officers, within co-operation aimed at the prevention international crime and terrorism, such as the recent case when an (illegal) arms depot has been found out near the village of Dobranje" read a short statement released by the Split police. The statement was issued following many questions of reporters whether it is true that weapons and explosive devices, discovered and confiscated fifteen days ago at Dobranje near the town of Imotski (the Split hinterland), were to be smuggled for the Irish Republican Army (IRA). This information was published by Friday's issues of The Irish Times, claiming that the destination of the shipment of
SPLIT, July 28 (Hina) - Police in the Croatian coastal city of Split
on Friday confirmed that representatives of Irish police paid a
visit to Split for talks on prevention of international crime and
terrorism.
"This contact is a part of a series of regular contacts with western
European police officers, within co-operation aimed at the
prevention international crime and terrorism, such as the recent
case when an (illegal) arms depot has been found out near the
village of Dobranje" read a short statement released by the Split
police.
The statement was issued following many questions of reporters
whether it is true that weapons and explosive devices, discovered
and confiscated fifteen days ago at Dobranje near the town of
Imotski (the Split hinterland), were to be smuggled for the Irish
Republican Army (IRA).
This information was published by Friday's issues of The Irish
Times, claiming that the destination of the shipment of those arms
should have been the IRA and the Continuity IRA.
On 13 July Split police and personnel of the Croatian Service for
the Protection of the Constitutional Order (SZUP) found out and
seized 32 kilograms of explosive, seven (7) rocket launchers and
over 3,600 pieces of ammunition in that village in southern
Croatia. During this action, three men from Dobranje and one person
from Zagreb were apprehended.
Police asserted they had broken an international smuggling chain of
arms. Smugglers obtained goods from neighbouring Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
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