ZAGREB, May 2, 2020 – A group of about 20 citizens staged on Friday a peaceful protest rally in Rijeka’s main street Korzo against the measures taken by the National Civil Protection Authority to stop the coronavirus epidemic and called for all measures to be lifted.
Three protesters were taken to the police station because they had refused to show their IDs, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Police Administration said.
Protesters carried, among other things, banners saying “We demand immediate abolition of all absurd measures”, “We don’t want fascism, despotism and totalitarianism” and “Civil protection measures don’t save lives, they kill”.
They said that this was a civic initiative, that they “are protesting against this totalitarian regime, they want everything to return back to normal, an acknowledgement of the artificially created virus and for the introduction of the 5G network to be stopped.”
The police said that the rally outside the city administration building, which started at about 11 a.m., had not been reported to the police, but that the organisers had posted the call on social networks.
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