Police search home of Hague fugitive

A search of the Novi Sad home of Hague fugitive Goran Hadzic ended just before 13:00 CET. Police teams and 10 individuals in civilian clothing left the house after a six-hour search, carrying boxes containing, it is assumed, seized documentation. Police search home of Hague fugitive No statements to the press were given after the operation. The operation was carried out as part of the search for Hadzic. Chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajic said that, besides Hadzic’s home, searches were also under way at Hadzic’s son-in-law’s work place and the home of his sister, Goranka. “These are regular activities that the Action Team are carrying out in the hunt for the remaining fugitives,“ Ljajic explained. Hadzic lived in the aforesaid house until 2004, when he absconded, hours before a warrant was due to be issued for his arrest. Since then, there has been no sign of him. Hadzic (1956) was the president of the former Republic of Sreb Krajina and worked before the conflict in Croatia as a magician in Pacetin. An indictment was raised against him in May 2004 accusing him, “as prime minister of the Serb government of the autonomous regions of Slavonia, Baranje and Western Srem, and then president of the Republic of Serb Krajina“ of “participating in a associated criminal undertaking as a co-executor.“ His goal, the indictment stated, was to permanently drive the majority of Croats and the remaining non-Serb population out of around one-third of the territory of the Republic of Croatia, with the objective of that territory becoming part of a new state under Serb domination. It is stated that that criminal undertaking began on June 25, 1991 at the latest, and continued until at least December 1993 Goran Hadzic (Beta, archive)

Police search home of Hague fugitive

No statements to the press were given after the operation. The operation was carried out as part of the search for Hadžić.

Chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajić said that, besides Hadžić’s home, searches were also under way at Hadžić’s son-in-law’s work place and the home of his sister, Goranka.

“These are regular activities that the Action Team are carrying out in the hunt for the remaining fugitives,“ Ljajić explained.

Hadžić lived in the aforesaid house until 2004, when he absconded, hours before a warrant was due to be issued for his arrest. Since then, there has been no sign of him.

Hadžić (1956) was the president of the former Republic of Sreb Krajina and worked before the conflict in Croatia as a magician in Pačetin.

An indictment was raised against him in May 2004 accusing him, “as prime minister of the Serb government of the autonomous regions of Slavonia, Baranje and Western Srem, and then president of the Republic of Serb Krajina“ of “participating in a associated criminal undertaking as a co-executor.“

His goal, the indictment stated, was to permanently drive the majority of Croats and the remaining non-Serb population out of around one-third of the territory of the Republic of Croatia, with the objective of that territory becoming part of a new state under Serb domination.

It is stated that that criminal undertaking began on June 25, 1991 at the latest, and continued until at least December 1993