Glavas issued a press release on Thursday stating that before the May local elections, the Jutarnji List daily published articles headlined "Detectives Asked to Collect Alimony" and "Glavas Has Not Paid Alimony For Five Years", which contained lies so as to discredit him.
He added that the same paper published denials of Nada Maric, the head of the 'Nada' association of single parents, and the Grogoslav Smaguc, the owner of the detective agency in question, who said that they had not given such statements implicating Glavas to a reporter of the daily on the matter.
Glavas went on to say that he had asked the daily's editorial board to publish a corrected version with its apology but the board failed to do so.
He announced the multi-million lawsuit against the Jutarnji List also for what he called a media lynching to which he has been exposed for more than a month over the killing of civilians in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek during the war. The lawsuit will be lodged against "Europapress holding" which publishes the daily.