Dateline Sutivan: Scandal Rocks Island

Developing Story:

Just days before the harvest of the white grapes of Sutivan, catastrophe
has struck. Pavle X., who was tending the grapes, says," I am in
shock. I don't understand how this could happen."

For some time now, Pavle has been cultivating the vines of gda. M., a
resident of Poland, preparing for a harvest and wine-making just as last
year. Imagine his surprise when he arrived yesterday morning to find
that sometime in the last day or so, someone had picked all the grapes.
His son-in-law, Ivo P., immediately called the police in Supetar and in
Split, who were non-committal. "Show us proof that you have a right to
those grapes," they told the flabbergasted Ivo.

Spiro X., also involved in the harvest and wine-making, said he was out
a lot of money since he had purchased a new grape mangle especially for
this crop.

This is a disaster for local winemaking, meaning that there will be no
white wine production this year, and that the amount of red wine
produced will be cut in half. The volume of rakija produced will also
suffer greatly.

Ivo is in communications with gda. M., advising her of the theft and
asking that she send documentation of Ivo and Pavle's rights.

Meanwhile, rumors swirl as to the identity of the thieves - with
suggestions of legal complicity - and one question looms largest of
all: just how much does Gda. M. know?