Mesic on Tuesday rejected allegations that three months ago he had been informed by the government that an investigation would be launched against his former aide Zeljko Bagic and that he had agreed with this, as was reported by a daily newspaper on Tuesday.
"This is somebody's hallucination. Those who say so are hallucinating," the head of state said while visiting a stand in a square in downtown Zagreb, set up to mark the day of the struggle against AIDS.
Asked by reporters to comment on yesterday's conclusions of the parliamentary Home Office and National Security Council that the POA had not acted unlawfully, Mesic said that in this specific case he could but did not have to ask the opinion of the committee but that opinion was not binding.
The committee concluded yesterday that the POA acted lawfully and that there were no legal reasons for relieving Josko Podbevsek of his duties as POA chief following a scandal surrounding the five-hour long interrogation of free-lance reporter Helena Puljiz by POA agents.
A few days ago Mesic signed the decision on Podbevsek's dismissal, as he was dissatisfied with the POA's conduct in the case of calling Puljiz for an interview and how the agents interviewed the reporter.
Mesic today reiterated that also some other people had told him that they had been called for interviews in POA offices. Those people sent me letters on the matter, he said.