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Thu 02 Feb 2010Four go on trial for murder of Croatian journalist
Four men accused of murdering a prominent Croatian journalist pleaded not guilty yesterday, as their trial began in a tightly guarded Zagreb courtroom watched over by police marksmen.
Ivo Pukanic was blown up alongside his marketing chief Niko Franjic in October 2008 as they got into a car outside the headquarters of Nacional, a weekly newspaper founded and edited by Mr Pukanic, which had acquired a reputation for in-depth investigations into crime and corruption.
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