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Croatia Police Unearth Hidden War Time Files
Zagreb | 11 December 2009 |
Croatia police said an operation aimed at locating documentation needed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICY, was a success.
The operation was aimed at locating the so-called 'artillery files' and other missing military documents sought by the Tribunal. Police seized more than 10,000 pages of documents, some of which were classified as state secrets or military secrets, and 15 military maps designated as military secrets, Hina newsagency reported.
Police also found 200 grams of explosives, two hand grenades, a pen gun and several hundred bullets. They confiscated several computers, as well as video and audio material, during 20 searches of flats, houses and cars, and questioned 25 people.
Police said they will continue to look for documents wanted by the tribunal and said they were now analysing the confiscated documents, videos and audio materials.
The police did not say whose homes and cars had been searched, butthe EurActiv.com Brussels based agency said it is widely known that they visited retired general Rahim Ademi and Zagreb lawyer Marin Ivanovic, who was arrested by police in Split Thursday and transferred to Zagreb for questioning.
Ivanovic is defending General Ante Gotovina, currently standing trial at the Hague tribunal for war crimes committed in 1995.
