A Croatian exile has been jailed for life for commissioning the assassination of a dissident writer in the southern German city of Munich in 1983.
The writer, Stjepan Djurekovic, was shot and bludgeoned to death by a Yugoslav hit squad in a printing plant owned by the exile, Krunoslav Prates. Prates was a mole working for the secret services of former Yugoslavia who posed Top war crimes suspect in court ...
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German citizen in Afghanistan held by US released ... as an opponent of the Belgrade government, thus winning Djurekovic's trust. The murder was aimed at stopping Djurekovic from revealing corruption by the son of a senior Yugoslav political figure. Germany arrested the exile three years ago.
(Deutsche Welle)
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