A former Sisak police chief, Djuro Brodarac, was arrested in his holiday house in Turanj near the Croatian coastal city of Zadar on Monday morning on suspicion of his involvement in war crimes in Sisak in 1991 and 1992.
According to unofficial information, he talked with investigators for more than three and a half hours before his apprehension. The police searched his holiday hose and car.
Asked by reporters how he was feeling, Brodarac said that he was feeling like all other people in such situation.
Asked whether he expected his arrest, he said that this question should be referred to somebody else.
Apart from Brodarac, a former commander of the Sisak police department's active and reserve units, Vlado Milankovic, and Sisak police reservist Drago Bosnjak were arrested also on Monday on suspicion of war crimes against civilians committed in 1991 and 1992, the interior ministry said, without identifying the suspects, only their years of birth.
The police did not specify crimes they were suspected of.
The three men are to be brought to the Osijek County Court, which is investigating the case together with the Police Directorate and the Sisak-Moslavina County police.
