Split police said on Tuesday they arrested two men aged 22 and 19 who were involved in a physical assault on seasonal workers in Supetar on the island of Brac, while they are still looking for the other perpetrators.

The hate crime took place around 4 a.m. on June 9. The two men are suspected of attacking five persons aged 21 to 26 on ethnic grounds together with other as yet unidentified persons. A Supetar fireman was injured while defending the victims, three young men from the Slavonia region and a girl from the city of Varazdin, who sustained light injuries.

Before the arrest, the 22-year-old perpetrator was given a restraining order not to come within 150 m of the fireman, while the 19-year-old was reported for breaking the law on public order and the law on the prevention of discrimination.

Eyewitnesses said there were about 15 attackers, that before the assault they were asking where the Serbs were and that a taxi driver saved the victims from sustaining more injuries. The assault was condemned by Supetar Mayor Ivana Markovic and top state officials.