Pukanic murder trial starts in Croatia

04/02/2010

ZAGREB, Croatia -- The trial of four suspects charged with murdering prominent Croatian publisher and journalist Ivo Pukanic in 2008 started on Wednesday (February 3rd) in Zagreb's District Court. All four pleaded not guilty. Two other people are being tried in absentia: one is in Serbian custody and the other recently surrendered to Bosnian police. Pukanic, co-owner and editor-in-chief of the weekly Nacional, was killed in a car bombing in downtown Zagreb on October 23rd 2008, along with the newspaper's marketing director, Niko Franjic. (HRT, Nova TV, Beta, RTS, BBC - 03/02/10)

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