According to media outlets, it was not known whether the rally had been reported in advance to the authorities, and the police forces came to the square soon after the gathering began, and then protesters dispersed.
Some of the protesters were carrying plastic lanterns, claiming that they had brought “a symbolic light against the darkness” which would be imposed on the country by the introduction of COVID certificates.
They said that they would come outside Government House every evening.
An association of conservative Catholic activists, called Vigilare, reported on the Facebook two days ago that they had the right “to bring light in the darkness.”
The president of the Croatian Association for the Promotion of Patients’ Rights, Jasna Karačić, told Hina on Monday morning that there was great resistance to vaccination and distrust of the profession in Croatia due to disinformation on COVID-19 that was spreading on social networks.
Disinformation is spreading on social networks much faster than scientific information is spreading. This is also present in other countries, but in Croatia it is pronounced the most in the entire EU, Karačić said.
