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BALCANICI INSERITI NELLA "LISTA NERA" DELLA UNIONE EUROPEA
EU ANNOUNCES NAMES OF PERSONS FROM BALKANS BANNED FROM ENTERING EU
BRUSSELS, July 1 (Beta) - The European Union announced on July
1 that 14 persons from Serbia and Montenegro and from Bosnia and
Herzegovina have been placed under a travel and transit ban on EU
territory because of their assistance to war crime indictees to "evade
justice."
One of the names on the black list is that of Milorad "Legija"
Lukovic, unofficially accused of helping former Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic and Croatian general Ante Gotovina who is still at
large and "with whom he served in the same unit in the French Foreign
Legion."
EU sources said that "Lukovic has been employed in Karadzic's
security unit since March this year, ever since Karadzic helped him
escape from Serbia where Lukovic was the main suspect in the
assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic."
The 14 persons on the list are Milovan Bjelica, Ljuban Ecim,
Aleksandar Karadzic (Radovan Karadzic's son), Ljiljana KaradzicZelen
(Radovan Karadzic's wife), Radomir Kojic, Tomislav Kovac, Petar Krasic,
Predrag Kujundzic, Momcilo Mandic, Branko Ratic, Slavko Roguljic,
Vasilije Veinovic, Milenko Vracar and Milorad "Legija" Lukovic.
EU sources have unofficially reported that a visa ban was
imposed on Aleksandar Karadzic and Ljiljana KaradzicZelen on the
grounds of their helping Radovan Karadzic "to obtain support" and "find
hiding places," and "acting as part of the liaison network with other
relatives of Karadzic's."
Another person on the list, Vasilije Veinovic, is a Serbian
Orthodox bishop who, according to sources, "harbored Karadzic in the
Mileseva Monastery."
The EU visa ban has also been imposed on Catholic priest Petar
Krasic, head of the Franciscan monastery of Masna Luka in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, because he "helped (war crimes indictee Ante) Gotovina to
travel by ensuring his safety." Krasic was fugitive Gotovina's main
assistant in the latter's unhindered movements between Croatia and
Herzegovina.
According to EU sources, among persons who were candidates for
the black list were the Serbian Orthodox archbishop in Montenegro,
Amfilohije Radovic, and a Serbian Orthodox bishop in Eastern Bosnia,
Vasilije Kacavenda.
Radovic "has been linked" to reports that he allegedly
"provided shelter for Karadzic in the Ostrog and Cetinje monasteries,"
while Kacavenda is claimed to have "actively helped Karadzic by
allowing him to hide in monasteries in his eparchy."
BALCANICI INSERITI NELLA "LISTA NERA" DELLA UNIONE EUROPEA
EU ANNOUNCES NAMES OF PERSONS FROM BALKANS BANNED FROM ENTERING EU
BRUSSELS, July 1 (Beta) - The European Union announced on July
1 that 14 persons from Serbia and Montenegro and from Bosnia and
Herzegovina have been placed under a travel and transit ban on EU
territory because of their assistance to war crime indictees to "evade
justice."
One of the names on the black list is that of Milorad "Legija"
Lukovic, unofficially accused of helping former Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic and Croatian general Ante Gotovina who is still at
large and "with whom he served in the same unit in the French Foreign
Legion."
EU sources said that "Lukovic has been employed in Karadzic's
security unit since March this year, ever since Karadzic helped him
escape from Serbia where Lukovic was the main suspect in the
assassination of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic."
The 14 persons on the list are Milovan Bjelica, Ljuban Ecim,
Aleksandar Karadzic (Radovan Karadzic's son), Ljiljana KaradzicZelen
(Radovan Karadzic's wife), Radomir Kojic, Tomislav Kovac, Petar Krasic,
Predrag Kujundzic, Momcilo Mandic, Branko Ratic, Slavko Roguljic,
Vasilije Veinovic, Milenko Vracar and Milorad "Legija" Lukovic.
EU sources have unofficially reported that a visa ban was
imposed on Aleksandar Karadzic and Ljiljana KaradzicZelen on the
grounds of their helping Radovan Karadzic "to obtain support" and "find
hiding places," and "acting as part of the liaison network with other
relatives of Karadzic's."
Another person on the list, Vasilije Veinovic, is a Serbian
Orthodox bishop who, according to sources, "harbored Karadzic in the
Mileseva Monastery."
The EU visa ban has also been imposed on Catholic priest Petar
Krasic, head of the Franciscan monastery of Masna Luka in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, because he "helped (war crimes indictee Ante) Gotovina to
travel by ensuring his safety." Krasic was fugitive Gotovina's main
assistant in the latter's unhindered movements between Croatia and
Herzegovina.
According to EU sources, among persons who were candidates for
the black list were the Serbian Orthodox archbishop in Montenegro,
Amfilohije Radovic, and a Serbian Orthodox bishop in Eastern Bosnia,
Vasilije Kacavenda.
Radovic "has been linked" to reports that he allegedly
"provided shelter for Karadzic in the Ostrog and Cetinje monasteries,"
while Kacavenda is claimed to have "actively helped Karadzic by
allowing him to hide in monasteries in his eparchy."