MOSTAR, Sept 11 (Hina) - Special units of the Bosnian Federation police arrested and injured a wrong man, harshly hurt a bystander and missed the man they were actually looking for in Mostar Monday.
MOSTAR, Sept 11 (Hina) - Special units of the Bosnian Federation
police arrested and injured a wrong man, harshly hurt a bystander
and missed the man they were actually looking for in Mostar Monday.
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Goran Vlajnic, arrested by special police in a cafe on Monday
morning, was released following a three-hour detainment after it
was established he was not the man for whom an arrest warrant had
been issued, the federal Interior Ministry said in a statement
Monday.
The Ministry stressed the county's Interior Minister, Dragan
Mandic, had been informed of Vlajnic's arrest and release by the
commander of Stabilisation Force Sector Southeast, Robert Meille,
whose troops took part in securing the "operation area".
Meille informed Mandic that the arrest of Goran Vlajnic was carried
out by a special unit of the federal Interior Ministry with the
supervision of the International Police Task Force.
Vlajnic had been provided medical assistance at the Mostar airport
and released after it had come to light he was not the wanted man,
Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Interior Ministry Public Relations
office said.
Some eyewitnesses said Vlajnic had been injured while police were
handcuffing him.
Medical sources conveyed police officers had also smashed the jaw
of Zoran Karaula, a bystander in the cafe during the operation.
An unnamed source at the UN confirmed the person for whom an arrest
warrant had been issued had managed to escape the special police
units.
Immediately upon Vlajnic's arrest, Bosnian Croat disabled war
veterans obstructed the passage of SFOR vehicles, as the NATO-led
SFOR assisted in the apprehension.
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