CROATIA: AN ALLEGED SECOND WORLD WAR DEATH CAMP GUARD, NADA SAKIC, IS FLOWN TO HER NATIVE CROATIA FOLLOWING EXTRADITION FROM ARGENTINA TO FACE TRIAL

Record ID: 501102

  • Title: CROATIA: AN ALLEGED SECOND WORLD WAR DEATH CAMP GUARD, NADA SAKIC, IS FLOWN TO HER NATIVE CROATIA FOLLOWING EXTRADITION FROM ARGENTINA TO FACE TRIAL
  • Date: 2nd November 1998
  • Summary: ZAGREB, CROATIA (NOVEMBER 2) (RTV) SV PLANE ON TARMAC GV POLICE OFFICERS SV/SCU NADA SAKIC ACCOMPANIED BY INTERPOL POLICE GETTING OFF PLANE, WALKING ACROSS TARMAC AND INTO POLICE VAN SV POLICE VEHICLES DRIVE OFF ACROSS TARMAC
  • Embargoed: 17th November 1998 12:00
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  • Location: ZAGREB, CROATIA
  • Country: Croatia
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,History
  • Reuters ID: LVAB223N1FWTPNNT8BCEIBK1XQYU
  • Story Text: An alleged Second World War death camp guard Nada Sakic was flown on Monday to her native Croatia following her extradition from Argentina, to face trial like her husband Dinko Sakic, who was extradited in June.
    Nada Sakic, who will stand trial for crimes allegedly committed while she served as a prison camp guard during the Second World War, arrived under police escort in Zagreb on Monday (November 2).
    Sakic was loaded into a prison van at Zagreb airport at
    13 p.m.(1813 GMT) after arriving on a Croatia Airlines flight from Frankfurt where she had flown from Buenos Aires on Sunday night.
    Nada Sakic, who went by the Spanish translation of her name, Esperanza, is alleged to have worked at the women's section of a concentration camp run by her husband when Croatia was under the Ustashe regime, puppets of Adolf Hitler's Nazis.
    She is suspected of "torture, treating civilians inhumanely, measures of intimidation, terror and collective punishment of civilians in violation of international law,"
    according to Croatian state news agency Hina.
    The frail old woman in her seventies, who has Parkinson's disease and had been held under house arrest in Argentina before her extradition on Sunday night.
    Argentina, eager to shake off its image as a haven for Nazi war criminals, was quick to grant the extradition of Dinko and Nada Sakic, who had lived in the country quietly for 50 years until Dinko appeared in a television documentary in April and talked about his war record.
    Dinko Sakic told Channel 13 that when he served at Jasenovac, "no guard or administrator was allowed to so much as touch a prisoner" and prisoners died of natural causes.He hid when Croatia asked for his arrest but later surrendered, saying he wanted to go to Zagreb to protest his innocence.
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