After promoting his book "In vino libertas, autobiographical notes from The Hague" in Zagreb, war criminal Valentin Coric will promote it in Mostar on Friday evening.

Organized by “Naklada Pavicic”, the war criminal will promote the book in the Croat Home of Herceg Stjepan Kosaca.

Among many reactions, the Association of Concentration Camp Inmates of the City of Mostar said that “over 20,000 inmates passed through the torture chambers in which Valentin Coric was the master of life and death. How evil this ‘repentant’ really is – is shown by his book promotion in which he describes his stay in the hotel premises of the Hague Tribunal, without mentioning how he falsely repented in order to be released early.”

The Association added that “today's promotion is not repentance for what has been done, but regret for what they failed to complete, i.e. to ethnically cleanse the area, expel, kill, rob, displace and, as their creator of modern Croatia says, ‘humanely relocate’,”

The war criminal Coric was released in 2019, after serving two thirds of his sentence.

The Hague Court sentenced six former officials of the Herceg-Bosna parastate to a total of 111 years in prison for crimes committed against Bosniaks in 1993 and 1994.

The Court found guilty the so called Prime Minister Jadranko Prlic, Minister of Defence Bruno Stojic, Chiefs of Croat Defence Council (HVO) Main Staff Generals Slobodan Praljak and Milivoj Petkovic, HVO Military Police Commander Valentin Coric and Head of the Prison Centers Office Berko Pusic.