$ KEGRO ZAGREB, 25 Oct (Hina) - The Zagreb municipal court on Friday rejected a claim for compensation filed by Edita Vlahovic-Zuvela of the Rijeka-based daily 'Novi List' against Vice Premier Borislav Skegro.
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$ KEGRO
ZAGREB, 25 Oct (Hina) - The Zagreb municipal court on Friday
rejected a claim for compensation filed by Edita Vlahovic-Zuvela of
the Rijeka-based daily 'Novi List' against Vice Premier Borislav
Skegro. #L#
The journalist sued Skegro for threatening her with a gun in
the Government building in Zagreb on 26 January 1996. Vlahovic-
Zuvela asked for 100,000 kunas for the mental anguish sustained and
for defamation of character.
In a short explanation of the verdict, judge Zeljka Rozic-
Kaleb said that if the plaintiff wanted to prove that he of she had
suffered mental anguish, he or she had to prove that the damage-
inflicting event had really happened. It was established, the judge
said, that such an event had not happened. It was established that
the plaintiff had neither suffered mental anguish nor defamation of
character, Rozic-Kaleb said.
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