Ex-Bosnian leader returns to Sarajevo after UK court rejects extradition request скачать в хорошем качестве

Ex-Bosnian leader returns to Sarajevo after UK court rejects extradition request

(28 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST ++CLIENTS NOTE: PLEASE IGNORE EDIT SENT EARLIER AND REPLACE WITH THIS ONE WHICH HAS HAD AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO LEVELS CORRECTED++ 1. Former Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic walking through the arrivals gate at Sarajevo airport, being welcomed by joyful supporters 2. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Ejup Ganic, former Bosnian vice president: "The second thing is that it has been established that the process that was led against me, was in fact, a political process, that Serbia misused the British judicial system, and it has created an international precedent, or there I say, a criminal act. I am glad that the people here supported me, we are still as a country, very vulnerable. Many times we did not do what we were suppose to, but what we did on May 2nd and 3rd, 1992, to prevent the military coup and to save Bosnia-Herzegovina, we saw it happen again in London, just now. And we returned and won again." 3. Ganic amid crowd of supporters outside the airport chanting: "Ejup, Ejup!" 4. Supporters 5. Ganic waving to supporters prior to getting into his car 6. Car bearing Ganic driving away STORYLINE: Former Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic returned to Sarajevo Wednesday and was greeted by hundreds of supporters a day after a British judge declared him a free man and rejected Serbia's request for his extradition to face war crimes charges. Ganic was arrested in March by British authorities following the Serbian extradition request. Serbia claimed Ganic ordered an attack on Yugoslav soldiers who were retreating from the Bosnian capital at the beginning of the 1992-95 war but failed to provide any evidence. The British judge blasted the extradition request as abusive and politically motivated. Sixty-four-year-old Ganic flew with his family from London. The Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, briefly met with him during a short layover at the Istanbul airport. The crowd at the Sarajevo airport carried banners saying "We were all with you" and waved with Bosnian flags and even a British one. Serbian prosecutors claimed that Ganic personally ordered a series of attacks on illegal targets, including an officers' club, a military hospital and what the Serbs describe as a medical convoy making its way out of town. But the British judge said the officers' club was a valid target, the medical convoy was in fact packed with army vehicles and military equipment and the hospital was unlikely to have been hit on the day Ganic took charge. While he acknowledged that war crimes may have taken place against Serbian troops as they left Sarajevo, he said there was nothing to indicate Ganic had been involved. Ganic told the crowd he was glad the judge concluded that Serbia misused the British judicial system and that the process against him was politically motivated. Ganic's release left Bosnian Serbs disappointed. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...