1996 Reporter ‘murdered over trade in organs’-- October 1996, By Tim Brown in Madrid
A JOURNALIST found hanged in Menorca was investigating alleged trafficking in human organs taken from specially selected and executed Bosnian prisoners of war, it has been claimed. The body of Xavier Gautier, 35, an investigative journalist for Le Figaro, was found in May hanging in a villa he had rented at Ciudadela to write a book about the former Yugoslavia. The slogan “Traitor, Red Devil” was scrawled in Italian on the dead man’s shirt and on a wall. The claim that Gautier was investigating the trafficking in human organs taken from slaughtered prisoners in Bosnia, where he had spent many months for his newspaper, has been made by his father. He has given a dossier of the claims to the Spanish Civil Guard at Barcelona in a move to keep the case under investigation. The information includes an eight-page list of names and addresses of people allegedly connected with the transplant racket found in the journalist’s Paris flat by his father. Menorcan police insist that the journalist committed suicide and say their inquiries are over. His family is convinced that he was murdered. “In less than six hours the organs from the concentration camp were in a private clinic in Trieste”. According to Mr Gautier, when his son’s body was found there were marks on the neck from two different ropes, the hands were tied, and painted on the shirt was the phrase “Diablo [sic] Rosso” - the nickname of Italian mercenary Robert delle Fave who had served with , Croatian forces. Xavier Gautier had met delle Fave in Nice and received information from him about trafficking in human organs, his father insists in his dossier. The documents also state that Gautier was knocked down by hit and run driver near Barcelona in January. Later, a Spanish doctor who was present at that incident was knocked down and killed.—“Blood samples and medical details of the prisoners were sent to Italian and possibly Spanish doctors,” claims Gautier’s father. “In less than six hours the organs from the concentration camp were in a private clinic in Trieste.” He says money raised by selling the organs was used to buy arms. Civil Guard headquarters in Madrid confirmed yesterday that the dossier had been passed to the investigating judge in Menorca. Fri, 04 Oct 1996 07:42:16 -0700: Reporter ‘murdered over trade in (Bosnian) organs’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et/access?ac=113016801302 <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et/access?ac=113016801302&pg=//96/10/4/worg04.html> &pg=//96/10/4/worg04.html According to this story, Croats were in the business of sending “meat” to market. Dana: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 04:03:56 CDT Statistics about Yugoslav Civil War (1992-1996). 4 0ct 96. For Fair Use Only. Electronic Telegraph International News Friday 4 October 1996 Issue 499. UN covered up organ trafficking report, says Serbia Published on 26 December 2010 - 12:22pm Serbia asked the international war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia to investigate a former UN chief in Kosovo for covering up a report on organ trafficking, a report said on Sunday. Serbia's minister for cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) wrote to chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz seeking an inquest into Soren Jessen Petersen, the head of the UN's mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) from 2004 to 2006, Blic newspaper reported. "We are waiting for ICTY to open an inquest into UNMIK officials at the time for contempt of court," minister Rasim Ljajic told the newspaper. Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty published a report earlier this month that linked Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to organ trading and organised crime, which Thaci has denied. UNMIK investigated possible organ trafficking in 2004, but it did not take it further citing lack of evidence. "At the time, UNMIK said it did not have a report on organ trafficking and had no proof ... But in 2008 our war crimes prosecutor obtained 16 pages of this report," Ljajic said. Marty's report said Thaci headed a Kosovo Liberation Army faction which controlled secret detention centres in Albania, where the human organ trafficking was alleged to have taken place in the aftermath of the 1998-99 war between the guerrillas and Serbian forces. http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/un-covered-organ-trafficking-report-says-serbia Description: Image removed by sender.
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