Josip Perkovic, the former Croatian secret police chief, is to stand trial in Germany. Earlier this year, Zagreb agreed to extradite him on the basis of a European arrest warrant. Perkovic is accused of involvement in the death in 1983 of a Croatian dissident near Munich.Perkovic is charged with being complicit in the murder. The victim was a member of a number of Yugoslavian opposition groups based in Germany. German police first issued a warrant for Perkovic's arrest in 2005 and a European arrest warrant has also been in force since Croatia joined the EU last year. However, shortly before its accession, Croatia passed a law that blocked extradition of suspected criminals; the law was only changed after Brussels threatened to withhold development funding.
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