The state prosecutor’s office Croatia has published an indictment against a former Serbian police officer for the alleged murder of several Croatian civilians in 1991, including, Luka Modricgrandfather of the midfielder Real Madrid of the same name, reports the Split newspaper ‘Slobodna Dalmacija’.
Zeljko Badzo63, was at the beginning of the Croatian war (1991-1995) commander of a special police unit of Serbian rebels in the town of Obrovac, in central Croatia, near the Adriatic coast.
He is accused of having killed Modric’s grandfather, then 61 years old, near his home in the town. Zaton Obrovacki while tending to his herd of goats.
The unit headed by Badzo also allegedly killed six other elderly civilians in the nearby town of Meki Doci.
These types of actions were part of the ethnic cleansing against Croats in territories of Croatia that the local Serbs wanted to include in their rebellious ‘Serbian Republic of Krajina’.