The family of Vukovar war veteran Jean-Michel Nicolier of France on Sunday called for locating the burial sites and remains of all persons gone missing in the 1991-95 Croatian war of independence.

Paul Nicolier, the brother of the legendary Vukovar war veteran who was killed at Ovcara outside Vukovar, confirmed for the Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) that his mother had recently given an extensive deposition to the Osijek County Prosecutor’s Office.

Paul Nicolier said that his mother told the investigators that a recently suspended police investigator, Nikola Kajkic, had shown them a year ago a video recording of a field where he said Jean-Michel Nicolier’s remains had been buried, but that they still did not know where that field was located.

Speaking to the press before the central commemoration marking Vukovar Remembrance Day, Nicolier, together with Osijek Mayor Ivan Vrkic, called on Serbian authorities and President Aleksandar Vucic to help them find Jean-Michel’s remains.

Paul Nicolier told the HRT that he hoped Serbia would extradite Spasoje Petkovic aka Stuka, suspected of involvement in the torture and killing of people brought to Ovcara from the Vukovar Hospital and of killing several people, including Jean-Michel Nicolier, who at the time was 25.

Paul Nicolier said that French prosecutorial authorities, too, had requested to interview Petkovic and that he hoped that Petkovic could also be extradited to France.

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