Croatia’s High Criminal Court on Wednesday upheld the 2023 verdict of the Zagreb County Court, which sentenced Branimir Glavas to seven years in prison for war crimes against Serbs in the city of Osijek, eastern Croatia in 1991.
The crimes took place against Serb civilians in Osijek during Croatia’s war for independence. The city was being shelled at the time. During the chaos, Serbs started to disappear.
According to the court, Glavas, then commander of the city’s defence forces, ordered members of the Croatian Army to arrest individual Serbs in Osijek. They were interrogated, taken to the banks of the Drava River, where they were executed and their bodies thrown into the river.
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