A European prison

The daily Dnevnik examines the European dimension of the trial against the alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić, who since his arrest has been awaiting trial at the International Court of Justice detention unit in the Dutch town of Scheveningen. "The prison where the leader of the Bosnian Serbs has been brought is surrounded by a concrete wall. The Scheveningen prison is an old institution. ... The Yugoslavian wars were part of European history ... and the court is also in Europe, so where do the people behind the high walls on Scheviningen's beach come from? The answer is obvious. Radovan Karadžić is a European - as were his victims. But this is where the problem begins. If a woman from Srebrenica whose entire family was killed wants to attend the court hearings, she cannot just get into the car and drive to The Hague. She will be stopped at the Slovenian border - if not before that - and sent back. She comes up against the border between Europe and the rest of the world. She needs a visa, and to obtain it she must fulfil the same requirements as all other citizens of the third world."

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