"One of the members of the Slovene police ordered the Croatian workers to leave the construction site and when they refused to comply he took their picture with a digital camera," the head of the office of the Medjimurje police chief, Krunoslav Gosaric, said. He added that the Slovene police headed towards the Slovene territory after the Croatian workers informed their company and the Croatian authorities of the incident.
The incident took place at 11.45 hrs Monday, some 600 metres from the Sveti Martin na Muri Hotiza border crossing, on the left bank of the Mura River that belongs to Croatia. The workers are conducting preparations for the construction of a 3,100 metres-long dike. The Croatian government has allocated three million kuna (some EUR415,000) for the construction of the dike that will protect Slovene villages from floods.
Despite the incident, the Croatian workers resumed construction works on Tuesday morning.