BLAST ATTEMPT ON JOSIP BROZ TITO MONUMENT IN HIS NATIVE VILLAGE IN
CROATIA
An attempt has been made in Croatia to blast a monument to the former
president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz
Tito. The monument stands near his house in the village of Kumrovec, a
report from Zagreb says.
A RIA Novosti correspondent reports that the woman, who cleans the Tito
house and the area near the monument, discovered a black coarse bag in
which a bomb lay. The woman heard a ticking mechanism and called the
police.
Specialists came and rendered the bomb safe. A special sniffer dog
inspected the adjacent territory. The bag was found to have six
kilogrammes of explosive. The police did not say why the time bomb did
not work: either the clockwork failed or the bomb was only a warning.
Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan has called the incident "an attempt
to provoke a state of emergency in the country". This terrorist act
cannot be justified, he said, and voiced the hope that "this time the
police will prove their efficiency".
Meanwhile, the police could not find culprits of recent explosions this
year at the People's Heroes Memorial at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb
and outside the Zagreb mayoral office.
According to Ivan Fumic, chairman of the Association of Anti-Fascist
Fighters of Croatia, since 1990, 3,500 out of the 5,000 monuments to
fighters against fascism have been destroyed.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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