Suspected Nazi deemed unfit for trial

KLAGENFURT , Austria, May 1 (UPI) -- A 96-year-old man suspected of committing war crimes while serving the Nazi Party is not fit to stand trial in Austria, a court spokeswoman says.

Klagenfurt court spokeswoman Norbert Jenny said doctors and authorities alike determined Milivoj Asner is not fit to stand trial on charges he committed atrocities against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during World War II, the Croatian Times said Friday.

Jenny said an examination of Asner by Norbert Nedopil, head of the Department for Forensic Psychiatry in Munich, supported doctors' previous findings.

"Dr. Nedopil did not find out anything contrary to what experts who previously examined Asner had found," she said.

Following the end of World War II, Asner is suspected of having left Croatia, where he served as a police officer, for Austria, where he changed his name to George Aschner.

Asner has already been indicted in Croatia on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Times said.