(23 Nov 2007)
1. EUFOR soldiers talking and entering apartment block of Ranko Cicovic, former driver of Radovan Karadzic
2. Various of troops outside building
3. Mid of police vehicle
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major David Fielder, spokesman of EUFOR:
"Okay, the current situation is that we have just finished the searching of Sonja Karadzic's apartment. During that search we found some information, mainly paper-based but there is also some electronic material that we have found that is relevant. We have taken that and that will be used during the further document exploitation. We have just had the opportunity to also carry out a search operation, the opportunity of Ranko Cicovic's apartment, which is just behind you now. We entered that apartment and that will be the fifth area that we have just gone into. In addition to that we also did the business premises of Sonja Karadzic's husband, Branislav, this morning so we have now done five searches in total."
5. Various of soldiers outside building
6. Wide of soldiers carrying seized box from Cicovic's apartment and putting the box in their car
7. Soldiers searching Cicovic's car
8. Close up of Ranko Cicovic, Radovan Karadzic's former driver
9. Soldiers searching car, motioning cameramen to move back
10. Various of soldiers carrying paperwork found in Cicovic's car
11. EUFOR troops outside building
STORYLINE:
European Union forces and NATO troops searched the homes of relatives of Bosnia's most-wanted war crimes suspect, Radovan Karadzic, on Friday, looking for clues as to his whereabouts, officials said.
They also searched the home of Ranko Cicovic, who used to be Karadzic's driver.
Troops began simultaneous searches at 5 a.m. (0400 GMT) at the homes of Karadzic's wife, Ljiljana, his daughter, Sonja, and his son, Alexandar, who is called Sasha.
"We have just finished the search of Sonja Karadzic's apartment, during that search we found some information, mainly paper-based but there is also some electronic material that we have found that is relevant," Major David Fielder, a spokesman for the European Union Force, EUFOR, said.
A few hours later, troops entered the premises of a local company called Petrol and searched the office of Sonja's husband, Branislav Jovicic.
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime political leader, and Ratko Mladic, his military commander, were indicted by the UN war Crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for genocide and other crimes, including the slaughter of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
Both have eluded capture for the last 11 years thanks, NATO officials believe, to a network of supporters who finance and otherwise facilitate their hiding.
Mladic is believed to be hiding in Serbia, but there have been no hints about Karadzic's whereabouts for years.
Karadzic's home in Pale, as well as the homes of his children, have been raided many times.
Documents and other material have been seized and his family members questioned.
But none of those raids and interrogations resulted in Karadzic's arrest.
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