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Tadic Receives Summons Due to Inappropriate Behaviour
Belgrade | 17 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
Serbian President Boris Tadic (archive)
Serbian police filed a lawsuit against President Boris Tadic on October 16 for violating the Law on the Prevention of Violence and Inappropriate Behaviour at Sporting Events.
The lawsuit was also filed against Serbia's Football Association chief executive Tomislav Karadzic, Belgrade Assembly Speaker Aleksandar Antic and Youth and Sport Minister Snezana Markovic-Samardzic.
They are charged with toasting Serbia's football victory over Romania with champagne. Football stadiums are not licensed premises, so the toast was illegal.
Tadic said after the game that he would pay a fine if he had violated the law.
“In case I have violated the law by taking a glass [of champagne] which was offered to me, I should face legal consequences, which means to pay a fine like any other citizen. If I drove a car and accidentally exceeded the speed, I would have to pay a fine as well," Tadic said.
Chief Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic told broadcaster B92 earlier that the state prosecution would not respond to, or initiate any criminal proceedings against the president, since the law had not been violated.
