ZURICH (Reuters) - A Bosnian Muslim wartime commander who was arrested in Switzerland in connection with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity will contest his extradition to Serbia, Swiss authorities said on Thursday.
Commander Naser Oric was arrested in Thonex in the Swiss canton of Geneva on Wednesday based on a request submitted by the Serbian authorities on Feb. 3, 2014, Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said in a statement.
Oric is currently being held in detention pending extradition, which the FOJ said he will contest.
The FOJ said it will ask the Serbian authorities to submit a formal extradition request within the 18-day period laid down in the European Convention on Extradition.
Oric was indicted by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against Serbs but was acquitted of all charges in 2008, a ruling that angered the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia, who see the tribunal as biased against them.
The war in Bosnia killed an estimated 100,000 people between 1992 and 1995.
(Reporting by Joshua Franklin; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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