Ostojic and Kotromanovic told reporters in the parliament that they had in no way participated in organising, paying or financing violence.
"It is the continuity of the HDZ policy to lie," Ostojic said dismissing as a lie HDZ official Frano Matusic's statement that he, Kotromanovic and another SDP MP Sime Lucin had met local war veterans in Kastela to discuss the preparation of the rally.
Kotromanovic said that SDP President Zoran Milanovic had already instructed SDP members "not to add fuel to fire" and that they had behaved so.