Woman Suspected in WWII Crimes Freed

A 76-year-old war crimes suspect was released from custody after the state attorney said he found no evidence to charge her in connection with crimes committed at Croatia’s most notorious World War II concentration camp. Nada Sakic was suspected of carrying out torture, terror and intimidation of civilians in the women’s block at the Jasenovac concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. She was extradited from Argentina in November. Her husband, Dinko Sakic, also 76, is awaiting trial in Croatia on war crimes charges. Tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats were killed at Jasenovac, one of more than 20 camps run by Croatia’s Nazi puppet state.