Murder of the Zec family
| Murder of the Zec family | |
|---|---|
| Location | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Date | 7 December 1991 |
| Target | Croatian Serbs |
Attack type | Mass killing |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Perpetrators | Munib Suljić, Siniša Rimac, Igor Mikola (Members of Tomislav Merčep's Paramilitary unit) |
The murder of the Zec family occurred in Zagreb, Croatia on 7 December 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence, when a squad of five Croatian militiamen shot dead three members of a Serb family: Mihajlo Zec, his wife Marija, and their 12-year-old daughter, Aleksandra. Two other Zec children escaped. The murderers were apprehended, but released after a controversial court decision in 1992.
After a long period of apparent negligence and cover-up, the Zec family murder was never addressed by the Croatian legal system, but the government agreed to compensate the surviving family members in a 2004 court settlement. The main perpetrators of this murder were given prison sentences on separate crimes.