Croatian police seek ex-general after killings

[Ender Wiggin]

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ZAGREB, March 28 (*******) - Croatian police said on Friday they had launched an extensive search for a former general in connection with four violent deaths in the north of the country.

They said four murder victims had been found in the last two days at three different places in the north Croatian region of Zagorje, and retired general Ivan Korade might have important information related to the killings.

"We believe that Korade has information that could help us resolve these cases," police spokesman Krunoslav Borovec told the local media. He declined to say whether Korade, whose whereabouts are unknown, was a suspect.

Media reports said special police units and helicopters were involved in the search, and police said they had contacted police in neighbouring Slovenia in case Korade had crossed the border.

Korade was one of the main commanders in the 1995 Croatian offensive, codenamed "Storm", that recaptured swathes of Croatian territory from rebel Serb forces.

Police have said he was involved in several violent incidents in recent years.


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[heintzX]

Is that Ivan Korade the ex commander of 7 PUMA brigade?

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Yep, that's the one...guy is a complete idiot, should have been behind the bars long time ago. Disgrace for the HV uniform and these murders are burden even for those who made him a general. He just had to suck up to the butt's of the big fishes of that time and voilá.

[heintzX]

I've met the guy in Karlovac in 1993 and once in Varazdin...he looked like he's from Sopranos heheh...Strange man.What in the hell happened?Did he killed them or just has informations??

[zg18]

Did he killed them or just has informations??

Judging by history of his behaviour and recent escape from the police he probably killed or was involved in the killings.....

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Police Confirms – General Korade Killed Himself

General Ivan Korade committed suicide. After many days chasing and shooting in the village of Persa Ves, where a policeman was killed.

ZAGREB, CROATIA - General Ivan Korade committed suicide, said Police Director Marijan Benko. According to some information, Korade is the one who today opened fire in the village of Persa Ves, and allegedly wounded some people and killed one.

As we found out, the killed man, is a policeman who belonged to the Kobra special police, which was investigating the area where Korade was hiding.
- During the shooting against the special police who was investigating the area where fugitive General Ivan Korade in Velika Veternicka, one policeman was shot and killed – said the spokesman of the Police Directorate, Krunoslav Borovec.

He believes that it was the fugitive himself the one who shot the policeman, and that he did from a weekend house, whose owner is still unknown.

The journalists present on the crime scene were sent away by the special police Alfa, who surrounded the crime scene, and the nearby forest, with dogs.

Mario Korade saw a wounded policeman

General Korade’s son, Mario Korade, could not confirm to use whether his father was really arrested, but, as he said, he saw an injured policeman.
- I saw an injured policeman, and an ambulance, but I do not know who wounded him, nor if it is true that my father was localised in Ribnjak – Mario Korade frightened told us in a telephone interview.


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