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Croatia’s deputy prime minister has resigned after footage surfaced of him shooting at random from a moving car.<\/p>\n
In the video, Josip Dabro can be seen in the passenger seat chatting, laughing and singing along to loud music, before picking up a pistol and shooting through an open window into the dark.<\/p>\n
Dabro, who represents hard-right nationalist party Homeland Movement, said the video was several years old and that he fired training bullets.<\/p>\n
It is the latest incident to trouble Croatia’s coalition – formed in May 2024 – with the government calling Dabro’s behaviour “inappropriate and irresponsible”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In a resignation statement posted on Facebook, Dabro, who was also minister for agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said that he did not want to be a distraction to the government.<\/p>\n
He said he had been subjected to “significant pressure and threats” over plans to reform the department.<\/p>\n
The footage was made public earlier in the week.<\/p>\n
Dabro’s party is in a coalition government with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.<\/p>\n
Last November, Health Minister Vili Bros was sacked ahead of a corruption investigation.<\/p>\n