Meeting in Sarajevo

By Francesc Bayarri Moreno

In 1969, Croatian General Vjekoslav Luburic was brutally murdered in a town a few kilometres from Valencia, Spain. Luburic was living in this country under the protection of Franco dictatorship. During World War II, Luburic was in charge of the concentration camps of Croatia, whose government was one of the allies of both Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy. Tens of thousands of people died in extermination camps of Nazi Croatia: Serbs, Jewish, gypsies, and Croatian opponents as well.Franco's regime press stated that Luburic was murdered by a spy sent by Tito, Yugoslavia's communist President throughout the postwar years. The alleged spy was Ilija Stanic, a 23 years old man when the murder was carried out. Neither the Spanish police services nor Interpol succeeded in arresting Stanic, who vanished without trace for over 30 years. He was still missing in 2003, when journalist Francesc Bayarri found him in Sarajevo. Francesc Bayarri's 'Meeting in Sarajevo' tells the story of Luburic's murder, Stanic's flee, and the various versions on the motive of the crime. 'Meeting in Sarajevo' combines the genres of investigative journalism, fiction, and essay. From the very beginning, readers embarks on a journey which will take them from Franco's Spain of far-off times to Balkan Peninsula of the present day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521507996
• ISBN13: 9781521507995
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"