Tomislav Mercep

The Anti-Fascist League of Croatia held a memorial event on Monday evening for the three murdered members of the Zec family on Sljeme Hill above Zagreb, where they were killed by Croatian reservist policemen during the war in December 1991 - a crime that remains unpunished.

On the 29th anniversary of their deaths, activists laid flowers and lit candles near the site of the killings.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a ruling allowing Tomislav Mercep, a former Croatian interior ministry assistant and unofficial commander of a reservist police battalion nicknamed the 'Mercepovci' ('Mercep's Men') to be released on parole.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR, a regional organisation of young activists and experts on transitional justice, presented a piece of analysis on Monday that shows how convicted war criminals continue to play prominent roles in the public arena in the Balkans.

Convicted war criminal Tomislav Mercep has been allowed to spend more than a month out of prison recuperating at a spa – a decision that Croatia’s veterans’ affairs minister said he supported.

Croatia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from Tomislav Mercep, a former interior ministry official and alleged head of a police unit that killed Serb civilians, against his war crimes convictions.

Oliver Frljic, a well-known director and the head of the Croatian National Theatre in the coastal city of Rijeka, told BIRN that he has "lost all hope that police will solve the numerous threats and pressures"that he has encountered since he started running the theatre in September 2014.

Retired general Karlo Gornisek told Zagreb county court on Friday that the notorious ‘Mercepovci' police unit, colloquially named after their alleged commander Mercep, a former interior ministry adviser, might not actually have been led by the defendant.