The Serbian Culture Ministry appealed to the relevant Office of the Public Prosecutor to prevent a campaign aimed at fomenting inter-ethnic hatred after on 12 September Kurir reported that the father of the incumbent Serbian vice premier had for two years been harbouring "Ustasha" Ivan Jovanovic Crni, sentenced to death for crimes against Serbs, in the wake of the Second World War.
Deputy PM Dulic Markovic has dismissed the allegations which have proven to be untrue.
Kojadinovic was quoted by the Serbian public broadcasting company as saying on Wednesday that the public prosecutor sent a letter with an explanation that proceedings could be launched only "in case of a direct threat and if somebody is killed following a call for lynching published in a paper".
Deputy PM Dulic Markovic has for some time been the target of ethnically-motivated insults from senior officials of the Serb Radical Party who labelled her and her family "Ustashas". Although these attacks were met with condemnation from the state leadership and public, nobody has so far been brought to justice for this sort of hate speech.