GROUP OF BOSNIAKS ATTACKS CRO REPORTER IN MOSTAR

MOSTAR, Sept 20 (Hina) - A group of Bosniaks on Thursday stopped and attacked a BMW car carrying a team of Croatian Television Mostar in the centre of the city, the Western European Union Police (WEU) said in a statement on Friday. The statement, signed by WEU spokesman Howard Fox, says that a policeman form the eastern (Muslim) part of Mostar stopped a UNHCR vehicle and the BMW as part of a regular traffic inspection. WEU points out that some people recognized a popular Croatian reporter in the BMW, who during the war reported from Mostar, and made an attempt to attack him. The reporter in question was Smiljko Sagolj, even though the WEU statement does not mention his name. Eastern Mostar policemen tried to protect the car, the statement says, and adds that four joint police patrols, headed by the WEU chief of operation in Mostar, immediately arrived on the scene. The situation calmed down after half an hour and Sagolj returned to Western Mostar, the statement concluded. (hina) ha jn 201935 MET sep 96