Asked to comment on claims by the media in Serbia-Montenegro that a Serbian bus was stoned in Rijeka, spokeswoman Mirjana Kulas said that the police had not received any such report.
According to her, supporters of the Hajduk soccer club from Split, who were travelling from Pula via Rijeka back to Split, disturbed the public order in front of a McDonalds in Rijeka at about 22:30 hrs Saturday. One of them also shot from a gas pistol.
They continued to behave violently in a nearby street and two of those Hajduk fans spotted the Serbian bus a traffic light. The violent fans then tore down a wiper and the plastic frame of the licence plate of the bus, which was driving at the regular line from the Croatian coastal town of Pula to Belgrade.
Kulas said that after the incident, the fans left the site in a van with Split licence plates.
According to the Serbian media, young men entered the same bus at the rest station of Ravna Gora in the Rijeka hinterland introducing themselves as "young Ustasha and hurdling verbal assaults at passengers, taking glasses off their faces".
Kulas said the police received no report on anything like that.
She explained that the police were informed that a group of young men, namely several Hajduk fans, ordered drinks and sandwiches at the Tifon petrol station in Ravna Gora and that they left the station without paying their bills.
The Rijeka police in cooperation with other police districts are establishing the identities of perpetrators, and some of them are already known to the police.