Article: Swift extradition for Croatian WWII concentration camp commander

COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-18-1998
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) _ After 41 years living quietly along Argentina's Atlantic coast, Dino Sakic headed home to Croatia today to face charges of World War II atrocities.

The 76-year-old former concentration camp commander arrived in Frankfurt aboard a commercial flight en route to Zagreb.

Four uniformed German police officers waited at the rear of the plane, and escorted four men in business suits to police vans parked on the tarmac. None of the four men coming off the plane was handcuffed.

Sakic, who was accompanied from Argentina by three Croatian police officers, was to be held at an airport jail until his flight ...

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