Serbia’s former long-time war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told the Belgrade independent Vreme weekly's Thursday edition that three men had recently entered his hospital room telling him they knew who he was, adding no one from the country's security services contacted him about the incident.

A nurse later told Vukcevic the three men, also patients in the same hospital were allegedly “from a town in Bosnia where a known paramilitary unit operated during the 1992-1995 war and committed a lot of evil there.”

He said the nurse added some of the unit’s members were arrested and processed, while one died in prison.

Vukcevic, the country’s first lawyer that held the post, was an uncompromising prosecutor and a sharp critic of the current regime, which he described as the “‘anti-Hague lobby’” (former anti-war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia and now the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals – IRMCT).

He was quoted as saying, “the attitude of the current authorities towards war crimes investigations is such as to encourage undoing.”

The former prosecutor told the daily he did not have security but that he would see what to do after the hospital incident.

Vukcevic added that no one from the state security services contacted him after the incident.