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Croatia’s deputy prime minister has resigned after footage emerged of him shooting randomly from a moving car.
In the video, Josip Dabro can be seen in the passenger seat chatting, laughing and singing to loud music, before grabbing a gun and shooting through an open window into the darkness.
Dabro, who represents the far-right nationalist Homeland Movement party, said the video was several years old and that he fired training bullets.
It is the latest incident to worry the Croatian coalition, formed in May 2024, with the government calling Dabro’s behavior “inappropriate and irresponsible.”
In a resignation statement posted on Facebook, Dabro, who was also Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said he did not want to distract the government.
He said he had been subjected to “significant pressure and threats” over plans to reform the department.
The images were made public earlier this week.
Dabro’s party is part of a coalition government with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
Last November, Health Minister Vili Bros was fired ahead of a corruption investigation.
On Monday, Zoran Milanovic was president re-elected for a second termobtaining almost three quarters of the votes cast, ahead of his opponent Dragan Primorac, who had the support of the HDZ party.
After the result, Plenkovic stated that “Milanovic offers nothing” and did not want to congratulate him. The presidents of Croatia fulfill a mainly ceremonial role.
