ZAGREB, 3 November, 2021 - An association of Homeland War veterans in Vukovar-Srijem County said on Tuesday evening that President Zoran Milanović had intentionally shifted the attention to political one upmanship from the honouring of war victims during the commemoration in the Lužac suburb of Vukovar on Tuesday morning.
The association, which is called the Association of Patriotic War Volunteers and Veterans of the Republic of Croatia, says in a statement that the President's "political performance" at Lužac gave precedence to political rows over the sacrifice of local 69 inhabitants who were killed in Lužac in 1991.
The commemoration at Lužac was neither the time nor the place for political performances, says the association referring to Milanović's statements to the press about the ongoing political rows and his disparaging remarks about Defence Minister Mario Banožić.
Addressing the press during the Lužac commemoration Milanović called Banožić "a cigarette butt" and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković "a creeping nut crusher" among other things.
