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Croatia’s deputy prime minister has resigned after he was found to be shooting at random from a moving car.
In the video, Josip Dabro can be seen in the passenger seat chatting, laughing and singing along to loud music before grabbing a gun and shooting into the darkness through an open window.
Dabro, who represents the far-right nationalist party Homeland Movement, said the video was several years old and that he fired training bullets.
The latest incident that has worried the Croatian coalition – formed in May 2024 – is the government’s opinion that Dabro’s behavior is “inappropriate and irresponsible”.
In his resignation statement posted on Facebook, Dabro, who was also Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said he did not want to be a distraction for the government.
He said that he has been subjected to “great pressure and threats” due to plans to reform the department.
The images were released earlier this week.
Dabro’s party is in a coalition government with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s center-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
Last November, Health Minister Vili Bros was sacked ahead of a corruption investigation.
On Monday, it was Zoran Milanovic re-elected president for a second termThe HDZ party supported Dragan Primorac by winning almost three quarters of the votes cast ahead of his opponent.
After this result, Plenkovic said that “Milanovic has nothing to offer” and did not want to congratulate him. Croatian presidents play a ceremonial role.
