Incident interrupts Vucic's lecture

LONDON - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday was interrupted by an incident caused by controversial Serbian businessman Nikola Sandulovic, Belgrade-based media reported on Tuesday.

Sandulovic entered the venue with his lawyer and introduced himself as the president of the Republican Party and former aide to late Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, Kurir reported.

The paper's website said that Sandulovic held a compact disc in his hand while attempting to interrupt Vucic's lecture.

Amid laughter in the audience, he said in Serbian that the elections in the country were irregular.

However, Vucic responded that Sandulovic was never a Djinjdic aide.

Dear friends, I can say that this is an exceptional political gift for me - all of Serbia knows who that man is, Kurir quoted Vucic as saying.

Blic, too, reported on the incident on its website, quoting Sandulovic's lawyer as allegedly saying that Vucic had threatened Sandulovic.

Sandulovic was the head of Zoran Djindjic's security staff.

In 2010, he survived an assassination attempt in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun when a bomb was planted underneath his car.

He blamed the "pigeon mafia" - people behind a bird trafficking ring - for the attack.

The blast threw him out of the car, but he survived without major injuries, the paper reported.

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