Serbian Flag Set Afire In Zagreb`s Main Square

The police brought in two perpetrators who were investigated.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – The police have brought in two perpetrators who took out the Serbian flag from a tent in Zagreb`s Ban Jelacic Square and set it on fire near the Mandusevac fountain, Zagreb police reports.

The detained persons are being investigated and there is no detailed information as of yet. Furthermore, the peroptrator`s identity is not familiar.

The flag was set on fire by someone from a group of drunken young men who chanted “Serbs on Weeping Willows”, “Here Comes the dawn, here come Jure and Boban”, the Jutarnji list daily writes. The young men wanted to set the flag on fire inside the tent, but failed to do so and decided to perform the act outside.

Intervention police noticed them and the youths fled, throwing the flag on the floor. Two hooligans were arrested.

- Why are you doing this, why do you need this, couldn`t you have celebrated the victory of our handball players like all normal fans with singing and Croatian flag – one of the officers shouted at the drunken young men, the Jutarnji list writes.

Otherwise, matches of the World Handball Championship are also being played in other Croatian cities. In a separate incident, a Serbian flag was set on fire in Zadar, because it was a problem for the citizens, according to the mayor, therefore he decided to remove the flags of all competing countries.