In a lone act of protest, a freelance investigative journalist threw a bucketful of faeces at the entrance to the government building in Zagreb city centre on Tuesday.

The journalist, later identified as Iva Anzulovic, was wearing a t-shirt with a picture of the late radio journalist Sinisa Glavasevic made famous by his wartime reports from inside the besieged eastern Croatian town of Vukovar during the 1991-95 war.

Inscription under the picture read “J’accuse, gentlemen,” a direct quote by Glavasevic in which he paraphrased the phrase by French author Émile Zola to accuse then Zagreb government for not helping Vukovar more.

After throwing the bucket, Anzulovic was escorted by a police officer to a nearby station.

She did a similar thing on August 8, emptying a bucket of canine faeces outside the building of the State Prosecutor’s Office, and was reported for a misdemeanour.

She explained on Facebook that her actions are a protest against lack of real fight against crime and corruption in the country, and the latest bucket attack was motivated by the government’s defeat in a recent international arbitration case against owner of a meat processing factory Gjuro Gavrilovic.

“I will throw faeces at anyone who has been proven a criminal in journalists’ articles. Starting today, nobody that has been proven to have behaved criminally by a reporter will feel safe in public – and this goes for institutions as well – because they will never know when, where, or how I might throw faeces at them,” she said.

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