"French zone"? In Bosnia? The people that have been getting caught have usually been hiding in either Serbia or in Coalition of the Willing Australia, by the way. ...
After the Dayton Accords, the country was divided into 4 areas of responsibility. I'll dispense with the Bihac and a little-bit-more area which some special status because IIRC it was close enough to NATO to be effectively patrolled. The rest of the country was split into
IFOR Zones (scroll towards the bottom), one each for the Americans (more-or-less the 'north'), British (more-or-less the 'west'), and French (more-or-less the 'southeast' - hey, Bosnia is a triangle
). The area under French control contained the heart of Republica Srpska, including their 'capital' of Pale (where Radovan Karadzic 'hid' quite openly from the War Crimes Tribunal for many years), and for a long time Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have been hiding here (and moving back and forth in Milosevic-run Serbia to be certain) and very little effort was made by the French forces (under Mitterand or Chirac alike) to hunt them down. Last I heard Mladic is in Russia, you know, Schroeder's masters?
Karadzic appears to be in RS somewhere.
Serbia I expected, Australia is a surprise. What does hugh have to say?