The Zagreb County Prosecutor's Office has dropped terrorism charges against 23-year-old Danijel Bezuk who killed himself last October after shooting at the government offices in Zagreb's St Mark's Square and wounding a police officer who was guarding the building.

Death excludes criminal prosecution, the Prosecutor’s Office said on Thursday, adding the investigation, carried out in cooperation with the police, found no evidence indicating the involvement of other persons as instigators or abettors.

Bezuk, from the village of Donje Kletiste near the central Croatian town of Kutina, opened fire at the government building in St Mark’s Square in Zagreb on the morning of October 12, 2020, using an assault rifle. He wounded the 31-year-old police officer Oskar Fiuri and damaged the wall of the building and two offices.

After the shooting, Bezuk fled, finally committing suicide not far from the scene. Shortly before he killed himself, he wrote in a post on social media that he had had “enough of fraud and ruthless trampling of human values without any accountability.” Before his profile was removed, the post was supported by more than 1,000 social media users who continued spreading hate speech and inciting violence in their comments.

The police later arrested a 63-year-old man from Bezuk’s home village who said after the incident that Bezuk had wanted to shoot the Prime Minister, but also that he himself was fantasising about it.

Bezuk’s father was also arrested after investigators found rifles with optical sights and silencers as well as more than 1,100 bullets at his home.