Nazi war crime suspect Milivoj Asner is unfit to stand trial, an Austrian court spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.The court had hired a German expert to give a second opinion on a contentious previous verdict by local psychiatrists that the 96-year-old Asner was suffering from dementia. Asner, who has lived in Austria for decades, is listed as number three among the most wanted war criminals by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.
The Croatia-born suspect, who lives in the southern Austrian town of Klagenfurt, was examined by the Munich forensic psychiatrist Norbert Nedopil. "He is unfit for interrogation or trial," said Norbert Jenny, the spokesperson of the Klagenfurt court. Croatia has requested Asner's extradition, as he is suspected of having helped to deport Jews, Roma and Serbs to World War II concentration camps.