Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, has described an allegation that he was involved in "sniper tourism" during the siege of Sarajevo as a "lie".
It follows a complaint submitted to Italian prosecutors by a Croatian journalist, who claimed that video from the 1990s and subsequent testimony by Bosnian officials showed that Vucic was a "war volunteer" with Bosnian-Serb forces at positions overlooking Sarajevo.
Speaking at a UK-Western Balkans business conference in Belgrade, Vucic said he had "never killed anyone, wounded anyone, or done anything similar".
He added that he had "never held a sniper rifle in my life".
Pictures purporting to show him with such a weapon actually show him carrying a "camera tripod", he said.
