About Ante Gotovina
Ante Gotovina is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He is noted for his primary role in the 1995 Operation Storm. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted him on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges in connection with that operation and its aftermath. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands in December 2005. Dominique Erulin disputed the verdict against Gotovina and himself, and claims Gotovina's criminal record was manufactured by left-wing factions allied with President François Mitterrand. Gotovina returned to Croatia in 1991, at the dawn of Croatian War of Independence, and enlisted in the Croatian National Guard (ZNG), the first organized military body of what would later become the Croatian Army. A sum of money amounting to €12,000 was discovered in his room.
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