GOSPIC GROUP' CASE ARRESTED GOSPIC, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Croatian police arrested Milan Canic in Gospic on Wednesday following a request by the State Prosecutor's Office in Rijeka to the County Court that it extend investigative
proceedings in the 'Gospic group' case to another two suspects. According to unofficial sources, Canic was arrested in his house and taken to the Rijeka County Investigative Centre. Milan Canic Bico helped organise the defence of Gospic and was a member of the town's war-time crisis headquarters. He and Mirko Norac are charged with war crimes against civilians in the Gospic area in 1991. So far, some 100 witnesses have been questioned in the proceedings against the Gospic group and some of them, questioned recently, implicated Norac and Canic.(hina) rml
GOSPIC, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Croatian police arrested Milan Canic in
Gospic on Wednesday following a request by the State Prosecutor's
Office in Rijeka to the County Court that it extend investigative
proceedings in the 'Gospic group' case to another two suspects.
According to unofficial sources, Canic was arrested in his house
and taken to the Rijeka County Investigative Centre.
Milan Canic Bico helped organise the defence of Gospic and was a
member of the town's war-time crisis headquarters. He and Mirko
Norac are charged with war crimes against civilians in the Gospic
area in 1991.
So far, some 100 witnesses have been questioned in the proceedings
against the Gospic group and some of them, questioned recently,
implicated Norac and Canic.
(hina) rml