All the witnesses, who today testified about the incident in the night between 24 and 25 July, said they were against treating all residents of Skabrnja, a neighbouring village to Biljani Donji where they live, as scapegoats.
The witnesses ascribed the incident when the four men, three from Skabrnja and one from Smilcic, stoned their houses and tried to set a fire in a yard, to the fact that the perpetrators were drunk.
According to their testimony, the incident should not be treated as a crime caused by religious or racial intolerance.
Asked by a lawyer for one of the indictees whether she was advised by anybody to dramatise the event to make it more serious, witness Sonja Kranjc answered in the affirmative.
She said that some circles close to the state government and some associations had tried to persuade her to exaggerate the incident, but she declined to say who exactly had urged her to do so.
The trial will continue with the testimonies of other witnesses.
Present at the trial were indictees Zoran Bilaver (31), Ljubo Basic (44), Denis Zilic (36), all from Skabrnja, and Ivan Duspara (23) from Smilcic.
The four indictees are accused of committing a crime of religious, ethnic and racial intolerance after they hurled stones at the four houses and tried to set one of them on fire in the village of Biljani Donji, populated by Serb returnees.