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Balkan Insight ( 14 April 2020)

Anja Vladisavljevic

Zagreb

Thirteen people, including two who displayed the WWII fascist Ustasa movement’s insignia, were charged with breaching coronavirus restrictions for rallying to support a priest who urged worshippers to attend Easter mass despite the lockdown.

Charges have been pressed against 13 people who rallied in front of a Catholic church in Sirobuja, a suburb of the coastal city of Split, flouting a ban on public gatherings during the coronavirus epidemic, Croatian media reported on Tuesday.

The rally on Sunday by the masked, black-clad protesters was held to support a priest who called on worshippers to attend mass, breaching measures imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Croatia.

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