Croatian Minister of Justice Damir Habijan asserted that what arrived from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were not indictments, but rather requests.
It should be recalled that after Croatian President Zoran Milanovic warned about the problem of indictments that – he said – are arriving from BiH even 30 years after the end of the war, Croatian media unofficially learned that the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia (DORH) has not received a single indictment from BiH in the past year.
“When we talk about the information that came out in public yesterday, we must first mention and refute the claims that these are indictments against certain individuals. So, first of all, I mean General Krsticevic, Sopta, and Blaskic. There are no indictments against the mentioned individuals. Just to clarify that part, given that their names are being mentioned in the media. The impression that was created yesterday is completely wrong, and I would really appeal that such an impression not be created because these are actually requests, we say, procedures that have been ongoing since 2009, and it is a matter of international legal cooperation, and I think it is in everyone’s interest, especially the veteran population, that such tensions, I would say, a situation that is being presented as extraordinary events, not be portrayed in that way, because it really is not so,” said Habijan, HRT writes.
