OSCE MONITORS VISIT STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN SISAK

( Editorial: --> 5916 ) SISAK, 20 Jan (Hina) - Monitors of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Coordination Centre in Sisak on Tuesday visited the State Attorney's Office of the Sisak-Moslavina County. State Attorney Franjo Jerkovic informed the monitors about the procedures that had been taken by the Office in cases of criminal offences against members of the Serb national minority in areas liberated from Serb occupation two and a half years ago. He emphasised that the county and municipal State Attorney's Offices in Sisak and Petrinja had in time processed all punishable offences which had occurred in the war ravaged region, without regard to whether the victims were Croatian returnees, displaced Croats from Bosnia-Herzegovina who had settled into the region or Serbs. Jerkovic recalled that on 3 June 1997 the Public Attorney's Office in Petrinja raised charges before the Municipal Court in Hrvatska Kostajnica against 10 Bosnian Croats who took part in disturbances which had taken place following the unorganised return of Serb refugees Those Bosnian Croats, who had settled into the Hrvatska Kostajnica area, were charged for engaging in damaging conduct, causing light and heavy bodily injuries, lighting fires and causing material damage. The trial before the Municipal Court in Hrvatska Kostajnica was underway, Jerkovic said, adding that the Attorney's Office in Sisak was acting timely and efficiently. The meeting agreed to cooperation between the County Attorney's Office and the Sisak OSCE Office. (Hina) jn mb 201940 MET jan 98