SERBS CONTINUE KINDAPPING FOREIGNERS IN BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, April 4 (Hina) - Two Swiss citizens, yesterday detained by Serbs at a road between Sarajevo and the city's airport, are now in a prison at the occupied Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza. UN Protection Force officials had failed to make any contact with the imprisoned people so far, UNPROFOR headquarters in Sarajevo reported on Tuesday. A spokesman for UNPROFOR, Alexander Ivanko, said that Simon Gerbe and Marija Vernel-Matic were kidnapped from a van, driven by Danish soldiers. Serbs accused the kidnapped Swiss of possessing photo-cameras and films. The Swiss, who were staying in Bosnia as UNESCO workers, were arrested while departing from Sarajevo. A worker of the German-BosnianHerzegovinian friendship society, Ludwig Kraus, detained by Serbs two days ago, is imprisoned in the Lukavica military barracks. It was still unknown when he might be released, Ivanko said. An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said today that five workers of the "Pharmaciens Sans Frontiers", kidnapped by Serbs almost a month a ago, were still being detained at the notorious Serb prison of 'Kula'. Serbs had moved the detained people to Kula from the Lukavica barracks'. Bosnian Serb leaders are repeatedly refusing to set free these five people, four French and one American. According to information available to the UN headquarters in Sarajevo, Serb are preparing to put them on trial because of their allegedly "logistical support" to the government-led Bosnian Army. (hina) mm mms 041348 MET apr 95