The famous Croatian journalist Antun Masle died at the age of 66.
Masle was the editor-in-chief of Dubrovnik Vjesnik, where he started his journalistic career.
He was born in Montenegro, in Bar, in 1956.
He became known as a war reporter and reported for Slobodna Dalmacija from the Dubrovnik battlefield.
Then, in the weekly Globus, he reported from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, wrote reports on Russian soldiers captured in Chechnya, reported on conflicts in Albania.
He was also a reporter from New York after September 11, followed interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, reported from Israel and Palestine...
He was arrested in wartime Sarajevo and was detained in the JNA House in Herceg Novi, and on April 20, 1999, on the border of Albania and Montenegro, he was captured by the Yugoslav Army and accused of espionage.
He spent two months in prison in Spuz, and feigning an attack of bile, he escaped through the window of the Clinical Hospital Center and for twenty days no one knew where he was.
Masle never disclosed the details of his escape from the Montenegrin prison to anyone, not even to family members.
Slobodna Dalmacija writes that the whole story surrounding his escape from prison was a key point, if not in the change, then in the accelerated improvement of relations between Croatia and Montenegro.
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