ZAGREB, 1 January, 2021 – Investigative reporter Domagoj Margetic has told police that two explosive devices were thrown at his basement flat in Zagreb on New Year’s Eve, one of which caused some damage, while police have confirmed that an investigation is underway.
Margetic told Hina on Friday that the latest incident happened only three weeks after he found a severed pig head, blood and excrement at the entrance to his flat, which he considered to be a clear threat motivated by his work as a journalist.
He said that this was the fifth serious threat he had received in the past 12 months.
Margetic said that police had not identified any perpetrators yet or provided him with protection despite the fact that the attacks were increasingly serious.
He said that last year he investigated allegations of misuse of EU funds at a clinic in Zadar and reported about businessman Petar Pripuz, art theft in World War II, about businessman Danko Koncar, and secret bank accounts in the Republic of South Africa, Malta and Saudi Arabia.
Police have confirmed that a window at the entrance to an apartment building in Zagreb’s Antun Bauer Street and a roller blind on the journalist’s flat were damaged by fireworks.
An investigation is under way, the police said.
