Bosnian war crimes fugitive hid in Greece

Bosnian war crimes fugitive hid in Greece

Citing information from security services, the paper published two photographs of Župljanin it said were taken at the Hilandar monastery on Mt. Athos in northern Greece, the Serbs' most sacred religious site.

In the first photo, the senior wartime police officer sought for years by the Bosnian Serb police, is shown dressed casually at the monastery under a cross and an inscription relating to Serbia's 14th century emperor Dušan.

In the other photograph, Župljanin is in the company of Predrag Ceranić, a former top Bosnian Serb intelligence officer.

Župljanin was charged in 1999 for crimes against Muslims and Croats in western Bosnia early in Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

The newspaper said he was hiding in Banja Luka, where his family lives, and elsewhere in Serbia, including the northern city of Novi Sad and Mt. Fruška Gora.

The United Nations' war crimes Chief Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, has said that he is within the reach of Serbian and Bosnian Serb authorities and Dnevni Avaz named several persons, including police and intelligence officers, as his helpers.

Del Ponte wants Belgrade to cooperate with the war crimes tribunal before Serbia can move towards joining the European Union. Pre-membership talks were suspended in May as a punishment for Serbia's failure to hand over one of the most prominent Serb war crimes fugitives, General Ratko Mladić.