The police have pressed charges against a 46-year-old man and placed him in custody on the suspicion that he sent threatening messages to the diplomatic offices of two EU countries, the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Police Department has reported.

The man, a Croatian national who lives on an island in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County but has not registered residence there, is suspected of having sent threats and disturbing messages by e-mail as well as phone, in the period from mid-April to the end of August this year.

The police searched the man’s home and other premises and confiscated the equipment he used to send the threats.