The Times: The father of tennis player Jelena Dokic has been arrested in Serbia for threatening to blow up the Australian embassy in Belgrade after his daughter told an Australian magazine that he had physically abused her.

Damic Dokic was detained in Vrdnik, northwest Serbia, on Wednesday after saying that he would throw a bomb at the car of the Australian ambassador to Serbia, Clare Birgin, if the claims were not retracted -- despite admitting that he had beaten his daughter.

Police were carrying out a search of his house late Wednesday night, the Interior Minister Ivica Davic said.

Dokic told Blic, a tabloid newspaper in Serbia, that he had an arsenal of weapons at his house and would only have to click his fingers to be supplied with a grenade launcher.

"I expect that after my threat the local police will react, arrest me and confiscate my weapons," he said. "But that would only increase the danger for the ambassador."

His outburst came after his 26-year-old daughter, who has Australian citizenship, and who is ranked number 71 in the world, told Sport and Style magazine that her father had abused her throughout her early days on the tennis circuit.

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