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The fourth expert report was ordered after pictures were published in the British newspaper The Sun showing Asner and his wife relaxing on a terrace among Euro 2008 football fans.
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VIENNA (AFP)---Austrian prosecutors are still examining psychiatric reports that say alleged Croatian Nazi war criminal Milivoj Asner is unfit to be questioned, Justice Minister Maria Berger said Wednesday.
If prosecutors decide that is not the case, the 95-year-old -- living in Klagenfurt since 2006 under the name Georg Aschner -- will be extradited to Croatia, Berger told journalists on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting.
Last week, a fourth medical report concluded, like three previous reports, that Asner suffers from dementia and is thus not fit to be questioned. But prosecutors have not officially reached any conclusions.
The fourth expert report was ordered after pictures were published in the British newspaper The Sun showing Asner and his wife relaxing on a terrace among Euro 2008 football fans.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and the media have questioned the validity of the findings and accused Austrian authorities of protecting former Nazi war criminals.
Asner does indeed seem lucid, and has given a number of interviews in recent days. In an interviewed aired Tuesday, he told Austrian public television ORF he was ready to surrender to Croatian authorities.
Asner is accused of having organised the deportation of Serbs, Jews and gypsies to Nazi concentration camps, where most of them died. He allegedly served as police chief under the fascist Ustase movement, which governed Croatia during World War II in alliance with Nazi Germany.
"The photos, and video clips... make it abundantly clear that Asner is in good health, lucid and able to get around on his own, in contradiction to the finding of an Austrian court which rules that he cannot be extradited to stand trial in Croatia due to ill health," the Simon Wiesenthal Center's director Efraim Zuroff wrote in a letter Austrian Justice Minister Maria Berger.