Published: November 08, 2018
Man to have surgery after toppling statue of leader of resistance to pro-Nazi regime during second world war
A 65-year-old man who repeatedly shoved a Croatian anti-fascist monument in an effort to topple it paid an immediate penalty for his act of vandalism when the statue fell on his leg and broke it, according to police and local media.
In an incident condemned by authorities in the coastal town of Split as “savage vandalism”, police said the man dislodged a bust of Rade Končar, a celebrated leader of the resistance to Croatia’s pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during the second world war.
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