Hedl sent a letter to the media on Thursday and to the Chief State Prosecutor on Wednesday, saying that he would not respond to a summons to testify before the Zagreb County Court even under the threat of arrest because of Glavas's media statements which most blatantly attacked his human and moral integrity.
Glavas recently told the media that he was willing to pay "the most expensive psychiatric treatment" for one of the witnesses in the investigation, Vjenceslav Bill, Hedl and Osijek County police department chief Vladimir Faber.
Hedl recalls in the letter to Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic that last December, after similar media attacks, he had received a letter with death threats and that in May this year he was exposed to a savage verbal assault by Davor Boras, leader of the HDSSB youth association. The HDSSB is a regional party led by Glavas.
Hedl also claims that he is being harassed on a daily basis from an unidentified phone number, with threatening calls occurring also during the night.
"My decision not to testify is not due to fear of Glavas and his storm troopers, but due to my protest against the fact that such things are not being punished and that what Glavas is saying and doing is being tolerated," Hedl said.
The journalist told Hina that he did not receive a summons to testify, but that he had seen his name on the witness list.
Several witnesses have already given up their testimony in the investigation against Glavas and Krunoslav Fehir, who accused Glavas of ordering the killing of Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991.
Some witnesses claimed that they were being threatened by Glavas, while some decided not to testify because the Zagreb County Court spokesman revealed their names, according to the media.