Jelena Dokic's father arrested for threats to ambassador: report
AFP
BELGRADE - The father of tennis star Jelena Dokic was arrested Wednesday for having threatened the Australian ambassador to Serbia in an newspaper interview, said the interior minister, B92 television reported.
Police arrested Damir Dokic in Vrdnik, northwest Serbia, because of threats he had made to the Australian ambassador Clare Birgin published in Wednesday's edition of Serbian daily Blic, said B92.
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said police were carrying out a search of his home.
Dokic, who now plays for Australia, was quoted in an interview with the Australian magazine Sport and Style, as saying that she left her family in 2002 because her father had mistreated her.
The comments have been reported in the Serbian media.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------