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Zagreb, April 18 (CP) – Unofficial reports claim the Dubrovnik police tried to ignore and avoid informing the media of a recent attack on American students.

After receiving queries from journalists interested in the case, the police denied there had been an incident and the American students from the Emerson college from Boston, who were the victims of the alleged attack were unavailable for comment.

Allegedly the students were attacked by two separate groups of Dubrovnik natives, both attacks happening the same night at two different venues.

The students were not robbed, but they were attacked for no apparent reason and had not received serious injuries.

One of the attacked students, Brock Pisciotta said he had been attacked by a group of locals as he was exiting the Fresh bar in Dubrovnik. He claimed some eight youths were beating him up and he remembered receiving a blow with the foot to the head, but was luckily not seriously injured. Another group of students was attacked at the Fuego nightclub, but by a different group of attackers.

The news of the attack had been published in several US media and the web page of the college and it is still not clear why the Dubrovnik police tried to sweep the unpleasant event under the carpet and the authorities had not at least sent an apology to the victims of the incident.

Although the Emerson College is organising trips for its students each year, it does not seem likely they’ll pick Dubrovnik as their destination next year.