A man who shouted at employees at the Split airport check-in counter in July 2021 and compared them to Nazis because he was not issued a flight ticket because he did not have a PCR test has been acquitted due to the statute of limitations.
The incident occurred when a man came to the check-in counter at Split airport to get a flight ticket. The employees explained to him that he could not travel because he did not have a PCR test, which was a mandatory epidemiological measure at the time. The man then began to shout words that attracted the attention of other passengers. He shouted that he did not need a PCR test, that the employees were violating his constitutional rights, and compared them to the Nazi regime. When the police arrived, he refused to show his ID.
The court found him guilty in March 2023. However, the man appealed, and the High Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb accepted his appeal in May 2025, quashed the first-instance verdict, and remanded the case for retrial. When the case file was returned to the Split court in December 2025, the judge determined that the absolute statute of limitations for misdemeanor prosecution had expired on July 25, 2025, even before the file was submitted for retrial.
According to the Misdemeanor Law, misdemeanor prosecution is time-barred after four years from the date the misdemeanor was committed. Since more than four years had passed since the incident, the court dismissed the charges. The costs of the misdemeanor proceedings were borne by the court's budget.
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