And finally… breaking bad

A long-dead anti-Nazi resistance leader struck a blow for freedom when his statue toppled onto a fascist vandal who was trying to destroy the monument and broke his leg.

In the incident described by the authorities in the Croatian coastal town of Split as “savage vandalism”, police said a 65-year old man had to be hospitalised after dislodging a bust of Rade Končar, the celebrated leader of the resistance to Croatia’s pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during the Second World War.

Končar, who died aged 31, was one of a group of 25 partisans executed by the Italian army in 1942.

Croatian centrist politician Krešo Beljak noted approvingly on Twitter: “Rade Končar breaks the legs of fascists 76 years after they shot him.”

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