The Zagreb city police Goran Burusic on Wednesday extended apologies over his recent statement on the motive of the perpetrators who planted an explosive device in Zagreb's main square in early hours of 23 January, explaining that his previous statement might cause ambiguities.
"It is true that I stated that wantonness was the motive (behind that crime), which led to the conclusion in the public that it was the only motive behind that crime." Burusic said in his press release on the Croatia Interior Ministry's web site.
He admitted that at the time when he had made his previous statement he had not wanted to prejudge the possibility of other motives which were still subject matters of the ongoing investigation.
On 27 January the police, in cooperation with the County Prosecutor's Office in Zagreb, completed a preliminary investigation into six men, aged between 27 and 58, suspected of planting the explosive device which went off in Zagreb's central Ban Josip Jelacic square on January 23. The suspects are behind bars after 30-day investigative detention was set on them.
The six men are believed to have met in the coastal town of Vodice in early December 2012 and agreed to activate an explosive device in Zagreb's main square. They planted the improvised device around 0230 hours on Wednesday, January 23 and set it off. Two concrete tiles on the central square were damaged in the explosion. The blast also caused minor damage on a nearby building. No one was injured.
