BELGRADE, Feb 3(Hina) - The district public prosecutor's office in Serbia's Novi Sad will ask for audio and video recordings of a news conference at which a senior Serbian Radical Party (SRS) official said the Novi Sad-based
Gradjanski list was an Ustasha newspaper whose owner and editor-in-chief was Croatian President Stjepan Mesic.
BELGRADE, Feb 3(Hina) - The district public prosecutor's office in
Serbia's Novi Sad will ask for audio and video recordings of a news
conference at which a senior Serbian Radical Party (SRS) official said
the Novi Sad-based Gradjanski list was an Ustasha newspaper whose
owner and editor-in-chief was Croatian President Stjepan Mesic.#L#
Acting district public prosecutor Stanko Vujic told reporters on
Tuesday he would decide whether to take measures and interview SRS
official Milorad Mircic after examining the integral transcript of the
news conference.
Mircic labelled Gradjanski list an "Ustasha" newspaper and accused the
Croatian head of state of "directly funding a newspaper which employs
all the scum in journalism". This statement was spurred by an
interview SRS vice president Tomislav Nikolic gave Gradjanski list in
which he allegedly said Vojvodina's autonomy should be abolished.
The head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Novi Sad office,
Pavel Domonji, said Mircic's statement came at a time when anti-Croat
incidents in the north of Serbia were multiplying. He added that the
windows of the Franciscan monastery in Novi Sad were smashed on Sunday
night.
Equating the Ustasha WWII movement and Croathood fosters animosity
against Croats, Domonji said. He, like numerous representatives of
Vojvodina authorities and associations of journalists of Serbia, has
slammed the latest incident.
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