Hague: Gotovina asks for house arrest

Hague: Gotovina asks for house arrest

The defense proposed that Gotovina be allowed to spend the time until the start of the trial in his home village of Pakostane near Zadar, under 24-hour electronic surveillance.

Appended to the motion were the guarantees proffered by the Croatian Government, signed by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and the guarantees of the Zadar archbishop Ivan Prendja, who claims that Gotovina “promised to him he would not flee” if the Trial Chamber releases him pending trial.

In the motion, the defense proposes that the Trial Chamber schedule a hearing on the issue.

Witnesses would be called, including high-ranking government and police officials and representatives of the company that manufactures the electronic surveillance system.

The indictment against General Gotovina for the crimes committed during and after Operation Storm was issued in June 2001.

He was a fugitive until December 2005, when he was arrested on the Canary Islands and transferred to the UN Detention Unit in Scheveningen.