ZLATAR, Oct 5 (Hina) - A false bomb tip-off on Thursday interrupted a special session of the national association of anti-fascist fighters and the county and town assembly in Zlatar, some 40 kilometres north of Zagreb, which was
organised to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-fascist uprising in Croatia and the 63rd anniversary of the 2nd Zagorje Partisan Unit.
ZLATAR, Oct 5 (Hina) - A false bomb tip-off on Thursday
interrupted a special session of the national association of anti-fascist
fighters and the county and town assembly in Zlatar, some 40 kilometres north
of Zagreb, which was organised to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-fascist
uprising in Croatia and the 63rd anniversary of the 2nd Zagorje Partisan
Unit. The session followed the unveiling of a monument to a partisan
messenger in a park in front of the town hall. During the night, the monument
was covered with chalk graffiti and urinated on, so the bronze sculpture had to
be washed before the unveiling.
After the bomb tip-off around 11 am, the police evacuated the town
hall, but they soon established that the tip-off was false.
The incident was condemned by local leaders.
The monument to the partisan messenger was the first of some 20
anti-fascist monuments in the northwestern region of Zagorje to be erected
again after they were toppled in the early 1990s.