U.S. ambassador in Belgrade blasts Serbian tabloids
Serbian tabloids consist of "90 percent fabrication, five percent conspiracy theories, and five percent truth."
Tuesday, 01.11.2016.
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U.S. ambassador in Belgrade blasts Serbian tabloids
According to the FoNet agency, Scott in this way responded to media reports that U.S. Marines celebrated Halloween in Belgrade by wearing "Savamala demolition team" costumes.Speaking while visiting the town of Leskovac in southern Serbia on Tuesday, the top U.S. diplomat in this country also said there was some truth to these reports - namely, that "one person, not a Marine, wore some T-shirt and a balaclava for Halloween, thinking that was funny."
According to FoNet, he also "explained this was a private party hosted by the Marines."
"I don't think that was funny, but he thought it was. But it's a lie that all our Marines wore that (T-shirt). It's a lie that they wore some anti-(Serbian)government slogans," Scott said.
According to the agency, he also noted that the U.S. Marines assigned to the U.S. embassy in Belgrade are "18 or 19 year-olds" who have been in this country "for only a year."
"They probably have no idea what the Serbian government is and who the prime minister is. Their duty is to protect our embassy," Scott has been quoted as saying by FoNet.
"What he said during the press conference and what all the tabloids are reporting now as the truth is not true at all," the ambassador said, when asked to comment on the claims made by tabloid Informer's editor-in-chief Dragana J. Vucicevic during PM Aleksandar Vucic's recent news conference.
Over the weekend, the Serbian media reported that U.S. Marines were seen wearing balaclavas and T-shirts reading, "Savamala demolition team" during the U.S. embassy's Halloween party in Belgrade - in an apparent reference to the controversial late April demolition of several buildings in the Serbian capital city's Savamala district.
Asked to comment on these reports - that said the costumed embassy revelers were also "chanting most offensive things about him" - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday that "the services" informed him about this and that, if true, it amounted to him "not expecting anything more intelligent than the dimwitted U.S. Marine humor. "
"I don't think this has anything to do with anything serious," Vucic said on Oct. 30.
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