ZAGREB ADDRESS ZAGREB, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Zagreb police on Wednesday received a warrant for the arrest of retired general Mirko Norac but failed to arrest him as they have not found him at his Zagreb address, a Zagreb police spokesman
said. Refusing to comment on speculations about Norac's arrest, spokesman Slavko Rako said it was judicial rather than police bodies who were responsible for the case. Along with the arrest warrant, the Zagreb police also received an order to take Norac into custody. The decision on custody was adopted after the investigation into war crimes committed against Serb civilians in Gospic, which includes six suspects from Gospic, was extended to include two other witnesses. Apart from Norac, the investigation was extended to Norac's war-time deputy and member of the Gospic crisis headquarters Milan Canic, who was arrested in Gospic and taken to the Rijeka County investigative centre today. The court ruled det
ZAGREB, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Zagreb police on Wednesday received a
warrant for the arrest of retired general Mirko Norac but failed to
arrest him as they have not found him at his Zagreb address, a Zagreb
police spokesman said.
Refusing to comment on speculations about Norac's arrest,
spokesman Slavko Rako said it was judicial rather than police
bodies who were responsible for the case.
Along with the arrest warrant, the Zagreb police also received an
order to take Norac into custody. The decision on custody was
adopted after the investigation into war crimes committed against
Serb civilians in Gospic, which includes six suspects from Gospic,
was extended to include two other witnesses.
Apart from Norac, the investigation was extended to Norac's war-
time deputy and member of the Gospic crisis headquarters Milan
Canic, who was arrested in Gospic and taken to the Rijeka County
investigative centre today.
The court ruled detention for the two suspects as it did for the
other six Gospic residents, charged with war crimes against
civilians.
Several witnesses in the investigation implicated Norac as being
the main person at a so-called deadly meeting, at which the
execution of abducted Gospic Serbs was allegedly discussed, and of
commanding and issuing execution orders to a group of soldiers.
Summonsed as a witness in the 'Gospic group' case in November last
year, Norac dismissed the claims saying he knew nothing about the
'deadly meeting'.
The investigation into Gospic crimes has been conducted since mid-
September last year, following the arrest of Tihomir Oreskovic,
Ivica Rozic, Martin Markovic, Joso Miletic and Ivan Jovanovic.
Oreskovic is suspected of ordering and the other suspects of
participating in the execution of some 40 unidentified Serbs in the
Gospic area in October 1991.
Late last December, the investigation was extended to Stjepan
Grandic, suspected of events at Lipova Glavica, where a group of
Serbs was allegedly executed. The bodies of these people were
exhumed at another location, called Debelo Brdo, in mid-December
last year.
(hina) rml