MOSTAR MOSTAR, Oct 14 (Hina) - SFOR soldiers entered the building of the Mostar-based Croat television house "Erotel" on Thursday morning pointing guns at the door keeper. Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops frisked everybody who
happened there - both women and men. They forbade any phone conversation and journalistic work. They took pictures and filmed everything by camera. Then they took picture of everyone present in the building, with their signature, just like in a jail, TV house "Erotel" said in a statement. When they filmed everything, they allowed reporters to go out of the building at about 12.30. At about 14.00 hrs, reporters and Erotel TV crews could again come into the building, the rooms of which had been also searched by SFOR soldiers. Making no written records SFOR troops took two main computers, from the offices of the Mostar commercial television, with bases including d
MOSTAR, Oct 14 (Hina) - SFOR soldiers entered the building of the
Mostar-based Croat television house "Erotel" on Thursday morning
pointing guns at the door keeper.
Stabilisation Force (SFOR) troops frisked everybody who happened
there - both women and men. They forbade any phone conversation and
journalistic work.
They took pictures and filmed everything by camera. Then they took
picture of everyone present in the building, with their signature,
just like in a jail, TV house "Erotel" said in a statement.
When they filmed everything, they allowed reporters to go out of the
building at about 12.30. At about 14.00 hrs, reporters and Erotel TV
crews could again come into the building, the rooms of which had
been also searched by SFOR soldiers.
Making no written records SFOR troops took two main computers, from
the offices of the Mostar commercial television, with bases
including data necessary for the work of this TV station. In
addition, they took the official mobile telephone of the TV
director, Branko Colak, private mobile phones of reporters- Spela
Cvitkovic Ilicic and Marija Topic Crnoja. Then, they took ten (10)
TV satellite cards from Colak's private bag which he privately
bought in Zagreb, the statement read.
The Erotel management and staff most severely condemns this
"cowboy-like" incursion into premises of the independent
television station, which happened while Ralph Johnson, the first
deputy of the International High Representative to Bosnia, began
talks with politicians in Croatia on re-broadcasting of Croatian
Radio and Television programme in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Erotel management believes that the Office of High
Representative intends to destroy by force the only TV house in
Bosnia that broadcasts programmes in pure Croatian language and
that is not under control of the international community.
On behalf of Erotel nobody attended the search, and that's why the
Erotel management suspects that since this event on Thursday
bugging devices have been installed so that reporters can be
eavesdropped.
(hina) jn ms