BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: EU troops raid house of former PM Sarovic

European Union peacekeepers in Bosnia supported by NATO and Serb Republic police raided the house of Mirko Sarovic on Friday (September 21) in search of information and material that could assist the arrest of top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic. The troops started the raid in the early morning upon the request of International Criminal Court in the Hague. They interviewed the household members and seized certain material from the house. "This operation is now successfully concluded. We'd like to thank to family for their contribution and help throughout this afternoon," said Major Dave Fielder, EUFOR spokesman. "We've seized certain items of material which will be taken away for examination later. Because these items are private property we cannot discuss them in public," Fielder added. Sarovic, a former Bosnian Serb president, figures among 33 people whose bank accounts were frozen earlier this year by local authorities under suspicion that they were aiding Karadzic and his wartime military commander Ratko Mladic. Karadzic and Mladic face genocide charges in connection with the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.

ITN Source | September 22, 2007

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