Proceedings are regularly broadcast to the Balkans, and while Milosevic's influence at home has waned, his past defiance and now Seselj's courtroom histrionics draw applause or amusement in Serbia.
One such story involves a computer, which the court gave Seselj to try to stop him from filing his lengthy motions scribbled by hand. He announced to his judges he would not touch this laptop because, he said with evident sarcasm, he did not want to get electric shocks.
During one session he requested that the judges change their red-and-black courtroom robes because they caused him deep psychological problems. He said they reminded him of the Roman Catholic Inquisition.
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