LOCAL AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR ATTACK ON HDZ OFFICES IN SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO $ SARAJEVO, Sept 13 (Hina) - After Friday night's bomb attack on the Bosnian HDZ party's headquarters in Sarajevo, president of the Sarajevo Canton HDZ Organisation, Jozo Leutar, said Saturday that local authorities bore full responsibility for the incident and for the apprehension of the perpetrator. "Such an attack could not be the act of an amateur, but well organised professionals, and represents only one in a row of similar terrorist assaults not only on HDZ but also on all Croats in Sarajevo," Leutar told reporters during a visit to the badly damaged party's offices in the Sarajevo Centar municipality. #L# An explosive device had been set up near the staircase at the entrance to the building where the municipal HDZ has its offices. The explosion left a 30 centimetre-deep crater and most of the windows on the building are broken. Leutar warned that such attacks were caused by the anti-Croat atmosphere inflamed by the Sarajevo media, and stressed that the international community did not give necessary attention to the fact. (hina) lm mm 131542 MET sep 97