Pukanic Murder Trial Opens
at the start of their trial last week in the capital Zagreb. The court is trying two other men in absentia. ( and will likely be extradited to Croatia; the other is being held in Serbia, which doesn’t extradite its citizens.) Ivo Pukanic, editor-in-chief of Croatian weekly , and marketing head Niko Francic were killed when a radio-controlled bomb went off in Pukanic’s car in October 2008. According to the indictment, . The men charged were themselves allegedly part of a criminal gang that received €1.5 million from Serbian mob boss Sreten Jocic to eliminate the Nacional editor.
By Beth Kampschror