Nazi War Criminal Busted at the Euro 2008
June 20th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Croatia, Human Rights, War Crimes, WWII
Now, Charles Lemos and Tony Karon have had their fun with the Euro 2008 soccer championship, but, now let me put an end to this with the obligatory bad news (since we didn’t have hooliganism this time, I had to find something else!).
But thanks to Le Monde, we hear that Georg Aschner, 95, Croatian citizen living in Austria, is actually Milivoj Asner, a wanted Nazi war criminal since 2004 after he fled from Croatia. He was spotted by a journalist from the British Sun at the games involving Croatia.
Asner has been living with his wife in Klagenburt (Austria) since 2006. There is an Interpol international warrant against him and Croatia has repeatedly asked Austria for his extradition. However, the Austrian courts have ruled that Asner is not in good enough health to be extradited (I guess he’s healthy enough to attend soccer games but not to be tried for his crimes).
Asner was the Croatian chief of Oustacha (pro-nazi) police during WWII and he is accused of being responsible for the deportation of hundreds of Croatian Jews and Gypsies. He is listed in fourth position of most wanted nazi war criminals by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Asner’s deportation is still unlikely though, as a medical report published today, declared him senile.
How ironic that it’s his nationalism / patriotism that got him busted.
Photo Credit: The Sun.
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