Has incident with Croatian flag actually happened?

The "Ustasha" reference concerns the WW2-era, Nazi allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) - and the leader of the opposition SRS spoke to reporters a day after an incident in the Serbian National Assembly that prompted a visiting Croatian delegation to cut short their visit, and Zagreb to attempt to deliver a protest note to the Serbian ambassador to Croatia.

But the main topic of Seselj's press conference today was whether the incident happened at all - considering that no journalist witnessed it.

"Well, this is a real conspiracy. I want a new court procedure, and you're saying it never happened," Seselj said. "I don't know how to reply. Why would I make it up? Is it that no reporter believes me? Is there anyone who does?"

Since the reporters in the room failed to answer this question, Seselj concluded:

"Nobody? Well, this is a real journalistic conspiracy today. We'll have to (do it) again."

"It's really incredible that you doubt whether that event happened," he continued. "And it did happen, and even if it hadn't - the effect is quite solid."

Seselj then said that Assembly's security saw it happen, and that members of his party "wrestled with them (over the flag)."

"Members of the (Croatian) delegation heard me curse their mother. First I said that I trampled on the Croatian Ustasha flag, and then I cursed their Ustasha mother. And what would you like to say, that we made it up, and the fools fell for it? Well it would be extraordinary if that was the case - but we did not make it up," Seselj said.

He also urged reporters to ask Serbia's interior minister whether there was video footage from the entrance to the Assembly, where the incident happened.

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