VARIOUS FILE: British police say they have arrested former member of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic

Record ID: 725960

  • Title: VARIOUS FILE: British police say they have arrested former member of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic
  • Date: 2nd March 2010
  • Summary: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FILE - MARCH 1996) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) BOSNIAN VICE-PRESIDENT EJUP GANIC GREETING NATO AMBASSADORS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BOSNIAN VICE-PRESIDENT EJUP GANIC, SAYING: "We discussed...we are very pleased with the IFOR mission here in Bosnia. Of course we expect more. We would like to see more work to remove those who are accused of war crimes, to remove them from the soil of Bosnia so that democracy can take ground and the good work by IFOR can be seen everywhere." CAMERA CREWS FILMING GANIC SPEAKING CAMERA CREWS/GENERAL SPEAKING GANIC SHAKING HANDS WITH NATO DEPUTY SECRETARY SERGIO BALANZINO AND GENERAL JOULWAN
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2010 12:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA3LYK7BGNOCGHZ5YT36ED6EA9C
  • Story Text: Former member of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic was arrested at London's Heathrow airport on Monday (March 1) on behalf of Serbian authorities, British police said.
    63-year old Ganic was detained under a provisional extradition warrant for alleged "conspiracy to murder with other named people and breach of the Geneva Convention, namely killing wounded soldiers", police said in a statement.
    He appeared at a magistrates' court later on Monday, the British government said.
    It added it was now up to Serbian authorities to provide full papers supporting their extradition request before a date could be fixed for an extradition hearing.
    "A judge will then consider whether there are any bars to the extradition," a government spokesman said in a statement.
    Ganic, who lives in Sarajevo, is one of 19 wanted in connection with an alleged attack on a column of the former Yugoslav Peoples' Army in Sarajevo in 1992.
    The other 18 are also former officials of Bosnia's wartime government.
    Ganic is currently manager of the private School of Science and Technology in Sarajevo. He no longer holds public office.
    The U.S.-brokered Dayton peace accord ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war, dividing the country in two autonomous regions, the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation.
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