Perković

Josip Perkovic was flown from Germany to Croatia on Thursday on a regular Croatia Airlines flight accompanied by plainclothes policemen, local media reported.

After landing, he was immediately taken to Remetinec prison in Zagreb, where he will be held while it is decided where he will serve the rest of his 30-year sentence.

Velika Gorica County Court decided on Wednesday to reduce the life sentence handed down in Munich in Germany to former Yugoslav State Security Service official Zdravko Mustac to 40 years in jail.

The court cited the fact that Croatia's criminal code does not include life imprisonment and prescribes a maximum jail term of 40 years.

Zagreb County Court has decided to convert the life sentence given by a Munich court to the former Yugoslav State Security Service official Josip Perkovic to 30 years in prison.

Former Yugoslav State Security Service officials Josip Perkovic and Zdravko Mustac have filed a suit against Germany at the European Court of Human Rights, alleging the trial that saw them convicted of murder was unfair.

A group of Croatian right-wingers, including popular nationalist singer Marko Perkovic, alias Thompson, are suing over a report accusing them of involvement in hate speech against Serbs.

Ustashas were in power in the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) that had death camps for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, including in Jasenovac.

Marko Perkovic ‘Thompson’, a nationalist who has sung for war crimes defendants, partied with Croatia’s footballers on their homecoming bus and was invited to sing during celebrations of their World Cup second-place success.

Because police did not appeal, nationalist singer Marko Perkovic Thompson was acquitted of inciting hatred by using a fascist slogan – also used by a 1990s paramilitary unit – in his popular wartime song.

Marko Perkovic, a singer known by his stage name 'Thompson', was found not guilty in a first-instance verdict on Wednesday of disturbing the public order by chanting "Za dom spremni" ("Ready for the home[land]"), the slogan of Croatian WWII fascist Ustasa movement.

Citing a security risk, authorities in Maribor banned Saturday’s planned concert by the Croatian nationalist singer Marko Perkovic ‘Thompson’.