Damage was inflicted to two buses carrying fans of the Partisan Belgrade club to yesterday's match with the host, the Zagreb handball club, including a bus of the Zagreb public transport, two police cars, and four cars of Croatian citizens.
A senior Zagreb Police officer, Krunoslav Borovec, said that there were indications that the Bad Blue Boys groups had intentionally caused riots throughout the city.
The police reported that the van with Belgrade licence plates carrying an Assistant Serbian Justice Minister and six Supreme Court judges was attacked by about 15 hooligans at about 21:50 Sunday, when the van halted at a bus station calling the police for additional protection after the delegation heard on the radio that there was the handball match going on between the Zagreb and Belgrade teams and that some incidents had preceded the event.
The attackers smashed the van's rear right window with a baseball stick, and then dispersed. The 57-year-old Serbian Supreme Court judge was injured and she was later admitted to a Zagreb hospital.
Assistant Justice Minister Slavka Srdic Jankovic today reported that the injured judge Mirjana Grubic was feeling well and that the delegation would leave Croatia later in the day, being accompanied by the police.
This delegation from Serbia took part in an international judicial conference in Zagreb.
According to the police, at about 16:00 hrs Sunday at a crossroads in the centre of Zagreb, dozen Zagreb fans attacked a car with Serbian plates carrying three Serbian reporters. One journalist sustained serious injuries, namely he had got his jawbone broken, and two were lightly hurt, when the attackers kicked and slapped them and beat them with baseball sticks.
The reporters were to cover a basketball match between the Zagreb-based Cibona club and Hemofarm from Vrsac, Serbia.
The police managed to nab two young boys believed to be involved in that attack.
The police also arrested another two Zagreb fans and misdemeanor charges are going to be pressed against them.
The police used means of force against violent fans.
Police officials told a news conference in Zagreb today that 480 police officers were engaged as security at the handball match, and added that it was impossible to ensure peace and order in the entire city.
Due to incidents when local football hooligans attacked Partisan handball players and a group of Serbian journalists near a hotel where they were staying, the match was delayed for more than hour. However, no incidents occurred during the game.