S-For members were standing side by side with the [Bosnian Serb] authorities Never once was anyone used

S-For members were standing side by side with the [Bosnian Serb] authorities Never once was anyone used as a human shield.”. One flaw in a meticulous plot led police to arrest Dominique Louis and her lover for the murder of hermillionaire husband. But she and her lover, Jean-Claude Vaz, were arrested after she told friends that she had cremated her husband and scattered his ashes in the river as he had wished – Mr Jochimec was Jewish and his religion forbids cremation.Police also wondered whyshe would destroy such key evidence if she sought the driver who had supposedly struck and killed Mr Jochimec. After a suspiciousfriend of Mr Jochimec’s contacted the police, investigations revealed that Ms Louis’s liaison with Mr Vaz had begun well before her marriage to Mr Jochimec in 2002; she had a teenage son with Mr Vaz, who was her sister’s ex-husband.Police found that Mr Vaz had lodged nearby on the night of the accident and subsequently changed a tyre on his vehicle.Ms Louis was driving with her husband near Valladolid when she said there was a fault.

“A masked man in plain clothes put hands on my shoulders and pushed me to open the courtyard gates and later to open the house door,” he told Reuters. “He ordered me to bang on the door and shout: This is S-For [Stabilisation Force].”Mr Mihajlovic said a uniformed S-For soldier did the same thing to him.The two men said they would file a complaint at a local court and were ready to go as far as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.A spokesman for S-For, Dave Sullivan denied the allegations “I have taken a look at the videotape. She believes about 15 war crimes suspects are on the run in Serbia.Earlier this month, Mrs Del Ponte said Nato troops who raided the former headquarters of Karadzic in Pale in January had missed him by just two hours.Two Bosnian Serb policemen who took part in that raid said yesterday they would sue Nato-led peacekeepers for using them as “human shields”.Nenad Sarenac and Rajko Mihajlovic said they wanted $1m each in compensation for putting their lives at risk when troops tried to enter Karadzic’s abandoned house on 13 January.Mr Sarenac said he and Mihajlovic were the only local policemen present during the raid on the house. It is the best territory to hide,” Mrs Del Ponte declared.Serbian officials denied that the wanted men were in the country. Zoran Zivkovic said: “Carla Del Ponte has been claiming for three years that the fugitives are in Serbia, but she has not provided us with any evidence for that.” He added: “If the suspects were in Serbia, they would have been arrested already. I do not see what else our government could do.”Mrs Del Ponte has often declared that Serbian authorities have turned a blind eye to alleged war criminals hiding on their territory. So Belgrade is now a safe haven for our fugitives,” Mrs Del Ponte told reporters in Brussels.Until now Karadzic has been thought to move between hideouts in Bosnia and his native Montenegro.

Mrs Del Ponte said he appeared to have joined his former army chief, Ratko Mladic, in the city.”So we have our most high- level people responsible for the crimes committed – Mladic and Karadzic – in Serbia,” she said.The two men have been indicted by the War Crimes Tribunal for genocide in the siege of Sarajevo and the massacre at Srebrenica, war crimes which claimed tens of thousands of lives in the 1992-1995 Bosnia war.”Our fugitives are well protected in their own country because they are considered to be heroes. Carla del Ponte, the United Nations war crimes prosecutor, has accused Serbia of protecting Bosnian Serb fugitives and said the former wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was living in the capital. “A general strike by lawyers is not like a stoppage on the railways,” it said.The centre-right government’s campaign against the legal punishments imposed on Alain Jupp?the former centre-right prime minister who was found guilty two weeks ago of corrupt party financing, has compounded the anger of defence lawyers and some judges. Thousands OF French lawyers went on strike yesterday, and hundreds demonstrated in legal robes and long, white collars against a criminal justice law that greatly extends the powers of police and prosecution. IAEA investigators are trying to establish whether the companies that supplied the materials knew of their final destination.The IAEA believes the UAE has become a supermarket for nuclear contraband, where components – mostly innocuous on their own – are centralised and sent on to their final destination.The Foreign Office declined to elaborate on Britain’s possible collaboration with Judge Garzon’s investigation.. Apart from Spanish companies, firms from Germany, Pakistan, Malaysia and Japan are also implicated.

He now awaits a report from a rogatory commission he has sent to Britain, and further intelligence reports, according to sources at Spain’s national court.British and other European intelligence operations are said to have collaborated closely in uncovering the supposed network. No such exports have been reported for the past two years.The alleged network was uncovered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while dismantling Libya’s nuclear programme. The multimillion-dollar network was revealed after Libya renounced its nuclear programme last December.Judge Garzon opened his investigation last June in response to Spanish intelligence reports. They did not include material “destined for a nuclear programme”, the spokeswoman said. But she conceded that the equipment could be modified for nuclear use.CNI warned the Economy Ministry in 2001 that Spanish companies could be implicated in the underground traffic of nuclear components. Spain’s crusading Judge Baltazar Garzon has sent a team to London to examine the possible involvement of Spanish companies in a secret network that supplied nuclear equipment to Libya, it was revealed yesterday.