Serbia has issued an international arrest warrant for a US citizen suspected of committing war crimes while serving as a Nazi officer in Belgrade during the World War Two, DPA reported.
Serbia prosecutors said that 88-year-old Peter Egner was suspected of committing war crimes against civilians in Belgrade from 1941 to 1944.
Egner, born in the former Yugoslavia, volunteered for a Nazi- controlled police unit that killed 17,000 civilians - mainly Serbs, Jews and Roma - at the Old Fairgrounds on the banks of the Sava River.
Egner lives in a retirement home in the north-western US state of Washington. In July 2008 the US authorities moved to revoke his citizenship, saying he concealed his service in a Nazi unit that killed thousands of civilians in a Belgrade death camp after moving to the US in 1960s.
He denied all charges.
Serbia issues arrest warrant for Nazi war crimes suspect
Serbia has issued an international arrest warrant for a US citizen suspected of committing war crimes while serving as a Nazi officer in Belgrade during the World War Two.
