PARIS PARIS, Oct 10 (Hina) - The last respects were paid to the remains of Croatian patriot Bruno Ante Busic at the Croat Catholic Mission in Paris on Sunday. Busic's remains were exhibited in the parish church in the morning hours,
with honorary guard provided by members of the Croat community in Paris. A mass was then served. Busic was a fighter for independent Croatia who was brutally killed in Paris 21 years ago in an assassination carried out by the UDBA, a former Yugoslav secret service. Today's services were attended by more than a thousand Croats, the faithful, and members of the Croat community in Paris, as well as by members of a Croatian delegation from Zagreb, headed by MP Vice Vukojevic, representatives of the Croatian Embassy in Paris, and the head of the Croatian diplomatic mission to the UNESCO, Vesna Girardi-Jurkic. Vukojevic, who is the vice president of a Croatian commission in charge of esta
PARIS, Oct 10 (Hina) - The last respects were paid to the remains of
Croatian patriot Bruno Ante Busic at the Croat Catholic Mission in
Paris on Sunday.
Busic's remains were exhibited in the parish church in the morning
hours, with honorary guard provided by members of the Croat
community in Paris. A mass was then served.
Busic was a fighter for independent Croatia who was brutally killed
in Paris 21 years ago in an assassination carried out by the UDBA, a
former Yugoslav secret service.
Today's services were attended by more than a thousand Croats, the
faithful, and members of the Croat community in Paris, as well as by
members of a Croatian delegation from Zagreb, headed by MP Vice
Vukojevic, representatives of the Croatian Embassy in Paris, and
the head of the Croatian diplomatic mission to the UNESCO, Vesna
Girardi-Jurkic.
Vukojevic, who is the vice president of a Croatian commission in
charge of establishing the number of war and post-war victims, and
Croatia's charge d'affaires Filip Vucak, thanked the Croat
community for having preserved, with care and dedication, the grave
and memory of Busic.
Busic's remains will be transferred to Zagreb on Monday, where they
will be buried at the military section of Zagreb's Mirogoj
cemetery.
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