MP Omerovic denies he was caught shoplifting in Germany

According to media reports, Omerovic, who was a member of a Serbian delegation headed to Brussels for the meeting, was last week allegedly caught shoplifting in a duty-free shop at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

But Omerovic, a member of the Serbian National Assembly from the SDPS party and a member of the Assembly Committee on Control of Security Services, denies this, and on Monday morning spoke for Prva TV to explain his side of the story, describing the event as "a traumatic experience."

Omerovic said he was starting to have digestive problems soon after departing Belgrade, "and for this reason had to use the toilet on the plane" - something the parliamentarian said the colleagues traveling with him, "plus some associates and some OSCE people" have "publicly confirmed."

Once in Frankfurt - where the delegation was to catch a connecting flight to Brussels - Omerovic spotted a 30 percent discount on perfumes in "one of the small duty-free shops that don't even have shopping baskets."

He then described the sequence of events:

"I take a bottle of perfume in my hand, and a set, three L'Oreal lipsticks. At that moment - I have a backpack on my right shoulder - I feel this strong, horrific, and unbearable pain in my stomach, as if somebody stabbed a knife in it. I cramp and drop my backpack and suddenly feel that my intestines are starting to empty. I panic and lose my head. I look for the arrows pointing to a toilet. I run out that space (the store) and into a toilet. After spending 15 minutes in the toilet I realize that the bottle of perfume is in my hand."

He said he then "headed back to the duty free shop, but saw a man (store security) at the door who asked him to approach."

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