ZAGREB, August 22, 2019 – Five guests, including a minor, sustained light injuries when unidentified attackers came in the cafe near Knin where those guests were, according to local web portals, watching a football match of the Belgrade-based Crvena Zvezda football club on Wednesday evening.
The Šibenik-Knin county police stated on Thursday that about 2230 hrs Wednesday, unidentified persons entered the cafe at Uzdolje, and after verbal insults they attacked the cafe owner and the guests and damaged the cafe furniture. In the incident, the five people suffered light injuries.
After that, a similar incident happened in cafe in the nearby village of Đevrske when also unidentified persons entered the facility and verbally abused the owner and guests. They damaged some of the property in the cafe, however, there were no injuries.
The police said that they qualified the incidents as violent behaviour.
The law enforcement authorities have already brought some of the persons believed to be connected with the incident in to the police station.
Local web portals have in the meantime reported that the incidents happened in the cafes in which guests watched the first leg of a Young Boys – Crvena Zvezda UEFA playoff match in Bern.
Health Minister Milan Kujundžić said on Thursday that the information available to him indicated that none of the injured five bar-goers who were attacked near Knin while they were watching a football match of the Belgrade-based Crvena Zvezda was in a life-threatening condition, and he condemned the incident as a disgrace.
“I condemn the incident,” Kujundžić told the press before the start of the government’s meeting. I heard about the incident and the information which I possess says that none of the injured is in a life-threatening condition. It is shameful that this happened, the minister said.
The law enforcement authorities have already brought some of the persons believed to be connected with the incident in to the police station.
A member of the Croatian parliament, Boris Milošević who is at the helm of the Serb People’s Council (SNV), wrote on his Facebook profile that the incidents in the cafes near Knin “is one more attack against the Serbs, which is incited only by the hatred towards the ethnicity of the attacked persons.”
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