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Serb police detain Karadzic son

14 Sep 2007 18:29:19 GMT
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BELGRADE, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Serb police detained the son of fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic on Friday for questioning related to the hunt for his father, who is wanted for genocide and has been on the run for a decade.

Karadzic family sources said Aleksandar Karadzic was taken into custody in the Serbian capital, where the family owns an apartment. There was no comment from police.

Apprehending Karadzic or his wartime military commander Ratko Mladic would greatly enhance the prospects for Bosnian and Serbian bids to join the European Union, which complains that not enough has been done in the past to capture them.

A Serbian minister suggested on Friday that tactics could be changed to put more pressure on the Karadzic family. The family has been the target of raids by NATO and EU peacekeepers on several occasions in the past few years without visible results.

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