Austria let Karadžić slip through fingers

Austrian police, in contact with Serbia and Croatia, are establishing if Radovan Karadžić spent time in Vienna in 2007.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 26.07.2008.

10:48

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Austrian police, in contact with Serbia and Croatia, are establishing if Radovan Karadzic spent time in Vienna in 2007. The Austrian Interior Ministry said that it was in contact with Serbian and Croatian authorities, and questioning witnesses in order to confirm whether a man that police questioned last year in Vienna going by the name of Petar Glumac was, in fact, Hague fugitive Radovan Karadzic. Austria let Karadzic slip through fingers Ministry spokesman Wolfgang Gollia confirmed last night to the Austrian APA agency that an article in daily Kronen Zeitung claiming that Karadzic had been in Vienna last year and that the Cobra special police unit had questioned him by chance in a flat in Vienna on May 4, 2007, during a hunt for a Serbian man wanted for murder. Police though had no idea that the man before them was the former Bosnian Serb leader. However, in a statement later to Austrian TV, Gollia said that after publication of Karadzic’s photos following his arrest, “the police officers that took part in the action in Vienna said that the man they found in the flat probably was Karadzic,” Reuters reports. The spokesman told Austrian TV that the ministry was now checking with Serbian and Croatian authorities, and was questioning police and witnesses in order to confirm the identity of the man they found in the flat. Karadzic as he looked in 2007 (FoNet, archive)

Austria let Karadžić slip through fingers

Ministry spokesman Wolfgang Gollia confirmed last night to the Austrian APA agency that an article in daily Kronen Zeitung claiming that Karadžić had been in Vienna last year and that the Cobra special police unit had questioned him by chance in a flat in Vienna on May 4, 2007, during a hunt for a Serbian man wanted for murder. Police though had no idea that the man before them was the former Bosnian Serb leader.

However, in a statement later to Austrian TV, Gollia said that after publication of Karadžić’s photos following his arrest, “the police officers that took part in the action in Vienna said that the man they found in the flat probably was Karadžić,” Reuters reports.

The spokesman told Austrian TV that the ministry was now checking with Serbian and Croatian authorities, and was questioning police and witnesses in order to confirm the identity of the man they found in the flat.

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