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Kenya suspect not fugitive Mladic Kenyans release Mladic mix-up man
(about 7 hours later)
A man arrested in Kenya on suspicion of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia is not fugitive ex-Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, Interpol says. The Kenyan police have released a man they wrongly detained on suspicion of being the alleged Bosnian Serb war criminal, Ratko Mladic.
Police had reportedly acted on a tip off that he resembled the wanted Bosnian Serb commander. The man was identified instead as a Croat, Igor Majeski, who works at the tourist resort of Mombasa.
The man, identified as Croatian Igor Majeski, was arrested at a resort in the coastal city, Mombasa, on Thursday. Mr Majeski's mother told reporters that he was coping with health problems and also facing a bad tourist season.
A tribunal spokeswoman said checks had also ruled him out as another fugitive, Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic. She said the last thing he needed, in the circumstances, was to be falsely branded as a war criminal.
Police said that Mr Majeski had been in Mombasa for some years and ran a water sports business at a hotel there. Officials at the international police organisation, Interpol, have confirmed that Igor Majeski's fingerprints did not match those of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb military forces who is being sought by a UN tribunal on charges of genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Interpol said fingerprint checks did not match those of Mladic, who is sought by an international tribunal on charges of genocide and other atrocities. In particular, General Mladic is accused of leading the massacre of several thousand Muslim men at Srebrenica in 1995.
A little while later, AFP quoted UN tribunal spokeswoman Olga Kavran as saying: "We have just got the confirmation that the arrested man is neither of our fugitives. Not Mladic, not Hadzic". General Mladic's capture is a key requirement of the European Union for closer ties with Serbia.
Mr Mladic, 67, has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal on charges of genocide and other crimes against humanity in Bosnia.
Mr Hadzic, 50, is accused of war crimes in Croatia.
The arrest of the two men, especially Mr Mladic, is a key requirement of the European Union for closer ties with Serbia.