"I most strongly condemn the renaming of streets, which is not in the interests of co-existence in a multicultural and multiethnic community such as Plaski," Karlovac County prefect Nedjeljko Strikic said at a news conference called by the HDZ in Karlovac on Tuesday.
He said that too little time had passed since the Homeland War, which claimed the lives of many people and caused great material damage, for people to treat this issue lightly. It is unacceptable for First Guard Brigade Street to be renamed St. Sava (Serb Orthodox saint) Street, Strikic said, wondering which country Plasko municipal head Radmila Medakovic wanted to live in.
Strikic said that the county authorities had done a lot in the last ten years to normalise relations between the Croats and the Serbs in Plaski and that the latest decision would provoke protest among some residents.
Strikic said that Medakovic, a member of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), was the most responsible for the latest case as well as for previous disputes.
About a dozen streets in Plaski have been renamed by a majority vote of SDSS councillors.