ZAGREB, April 18, 2020 – Following a call made by Zagreb City Assembly opposition councillor, Tomislav Tomašević and a few NGOs, residents in Zagreb’s various neighbourhoods took to banging on pots and kitchen utensils from their balconies on Friday to show their dissatisfaction with Mayor Milan Bandić.
Earlier on Friday, Tomašević, who is the whip of the left group in the Zagreb City Assembly, called on residents to join “a cacerolazo ” at 7 p.m. Friday and that by making noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils, they could tell Mayor Bandić “enough”.
“We can’t protest in (Ban Jelačić) square because of the corona measures, but we can make noise on our balconies and windows, regardless of what Bandić and the police think about that ‘disturbing of the peace’. Let them fine half the city if they can. Bandić pretends he didn’t hear the banging last time, but tonight it will be louder. Let Bandić’s people and ‘business partners’ and HDZ members who may live on your street realise that this way of running Zagreb is through, Tomašević said in a press release before the pots and pans demonstration in the evening.
The call for the protest was made by the NGOs The Right to the City, Green Action and Zagreb Is Calling You. They urge dissatisfied citizens to go to their windows and balconies, just as they did on 3 April when they also banged at their pots and pans and blew whistles in protest at how Bandić was running the city in the present situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic and the March 22 earthquake.
A Green Action activist, Bernard Ivčić, told Hina on Friday evening, that residents once again showed that they were fed up with the way how the city was run.
In his comment to the latest protest, Tomašević told Hina that this evening’s pots and pans demonstration was louder than the previous one.
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