BELGRADE, April 26 (Hina) - The Municipal Court in Leskovac, about 200 kilometres southeast of Belgrade, on Thursday ordered Serbian Radical Party official Goran Cvetanovic to pay a EUR 1,000 fine for defamation of the vice-president
of the G17 Plus party and former agriculture minister, Ivana Dulic Markovic.
BELGRADE, April 26 (Hina) - The Municipal Court in Leskovac, about
200 kilometres southeast of Belgrade, on Thursday ordered Serbian Radical
Party official Goran Cvetanovic to pay a EUR 1,000 fine for defamation of the
vice-president of the G17 Plus party and former agriculture minister, Ivana
Dulic Markovic. On June 27 last year, in an address to the local
legislature in his capacity as president of the Leskovac Municipal Assembly,
Cvetanovic called Dulic Markovic and her family "Ustashas", referring to the
Nazi puppet regime that ruled Croatia during the Second World War.
"I don't expect this judgement to bring about reduction in the number
of hate speech incidents, but it may serve as an encouragement to those
persistent in proving the truth that it is possible. Everyone should try to
seek justice in court and not elsewhere," Dulic Markovic told Beta news
agency.