Vukovar municipal office of the Chief State Prosecutor has decided not to proceed with the case against Marijan Zivkovic who was charged with smashing Latin-Cyrillic signs on the building of the Vukovar police station in September 2013.

Zivkovic’s attorney, Emil Mitrovski, told N1 on Friday that the case was dropped after the latest psychiatric examination of Zivkovic showed that he was mentally incapacitated at the time when he had smashed the signs.

According to Mitrovski, the local prosecution had already sent its decision to the Vukovar Municipal Court, where a hearing was to be held on November 5.

He added that Zivkovic, whose two sons have been killed in the 1991-95 war in Croatia, was carried away by his emotions and the atmosphere in the crowd of people, who were there to protest against the Cyrillic signs in the town, which resulted in his inability to control his actions.

Zivkovic said that he had received the decision of the prosecution about the discontinuation of the proceedings against him.

“I am a little man, but I am afraid of nothing, and I can only mourn the deaths of my sons,” Zivkovic said.

The lawyer said that no proceedings should have been conducted at all after Zivkovic had been initially acquitted in 2016, pending trial.