Croatian wartime general Branimir Glavas, who was convicted of war crimes against Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991, has fled to Bosnia and Herzegovina after his first-instance verdict was handed down. The verdict, handed down by Zagreb County Court on October 27, was the latest development in Glavas’ long-running legal saga. The proceedings against the former general have been ongoing since 2007, with two cases, codenamed 'Garage’ and 'Sellotape’.
Glavas, who holds dual citizenship of Croatia and Bosnia, claimed that he did not flee but no longer wanted to live in Croatia. The trial, which began in 2007, involved two cases, 'Garage’ and 'Sellotape’. Glavas was first found guilty in 2009 and sentenced to ten years in prison. After the Croatian Supreme Court confirmed the verdict but lowered the sentence to eight years, the Bosnian state court sent him to prison.
In 2016, the Croatian Supreme Court quashed Glavas’s first-degree verdict and he was released from jail. In 2018, his retrial was separated from the case against his subordinates, which was annulled in the current retrial. The current retrial began in 2021, with Glavas being tried alongside his subordinates Magdic, Kontic, and Dragic.
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War Crimes Convict Flees Croatia to Bosnia
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