Norbert Werner (born in

Laxenburg __NOTOC__ Laxenburg (Central Bavarian: ''Laxnbuag'') is a market town in the district of Mödling, in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. Located about south of the Austrian capital Vienna, it is chiefly known for the Laxenburg castles, which, be ...

,Gustav Chalupa: ''Krieg und Medien auf dem Balkan.'' Fischer, 2006, . p. 63. died on 28 June 1991 in Brnik) was an Austrian freelance journalist and

war correspondent A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war, war zone. War correspondence stands as one of journalism's most important and impactful forms. War correspondents operate in the most conflict-ridden parts of the wor ...

.Stjepan Malović: ''The People, Press, and Politics of Croatia.'' Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, , p. 221. Werner died at the age of 23 together with Nikolas Vogel at

Ljubljana Airport Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport () , also known by its previous name ''Brnik Airport'' (), is the international airport serving Ljubljana and the largest airport in Slovenia. It is located near Zgornji Brnik, Brnik, northwest of Ljubljana and ...

on 28 June 1991, by a missile attack by the

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/; Macedonian language, Macedonian, Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian language, Croatian and ; , J ...

on their car. Werner and Vogel were the first two journalists killed during the ten-day

Slovenian Independence War The Ten-Day War (), or the Slovenian War of Independence (), was a brief armed conflict that followed Slovenia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. It was fought between the Slovenian Territorial Defence together wi ...

.Paul Harris: ''Somebody else's war.'' Spa, 1992, . pp. 21, 54. They were commemorated by prime minister

Janez Janša Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), better known as Janez Janša (), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since ...

during the festivities of the final accession of Slovenia to the

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of the European Union at the airport of Ljubljana in 2008.''Prime Minister Janez Janša proclaims the single Schengen area one of the foundations of freedom, cooperation and progress in the European Union.''
Website of the prime minister, 31 March 2008.

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