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Original headline: Police identify five attackers on Croatian TV crew

Text of report in English by Croatian state news agency HINA

ZAGREB/SIBENIK, Aug 8 (Hina) - Sibenik-Knin police said on Sunday evening they have identified another three persons who took part in an attack on Croatian Television crew at a celebration of Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day held on Thursday in the village of Cavoglave, in the Dalmatian hinterland, adding that misdemeanour charges would be pressed against them.

The police identified a 57 year-old man from Split, a 63 year-old man from Zagreb and a 58 year-old man from Otavice, against whom misdemeanour charges would be filed.

The police are still investigating the incident in Cavoglave.

The police identified on Saturday two other attackers and pressed criminal charges against a 24 year-old man from Vukovar and misdemeanour chargers against a 28 year-old man from Dugopolje for their involvement in the incident in which the HTV crew was attacked.

[The Croatian news portal Index.hr quoted one of the TV crew members as saying that the attack came when the TV cameraman tried to film people wearing symbols of Croatia's WWII pro-Nazi Ustasha government Ustasha]

Source: HINA news agency, Zagreb, in English 1849 gmt 8 Aug 10

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