Gov't condemns publication of fake photos purportedly showing farm minister

The Croatian government on Tuesday condemned in the strongest terms the publication of photos purportedly depicting Agriculture Minister Tomislav Tolusic in a defamatory situation, describing them as perfidious and illegal hoax meant to discredit top state officials.

The government expects the law-enforcement and prosecutorial authorities to investigate this case and find the perpetrators of "yet another extremely insidious attempt to destabilise the government and the legal order."

The Nacional weekly published on Tuesday an article with the headline "A whore, cocaine in professional set-up against Tomislav Tolusic", and the article is accompanied by the fake photos aimed at discrediting the minister.

The weekly newspaper has said that it has obtained the disputable photos from an anonymous source.

The Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA), which has also got the photos in the meantime, established that they are fabrications, the newspaper said.

The case prompted the government to issue a press release in which it condemns in the strongest terms the appearance of fake photos as perfidious and illegal hoax aimed at discrediting top state officials.

The government expects the police and the Office of Chief State Prosecutor to investigate the case and find the perpetrators of this insidious attempt to destabilise the government and to affect the legal order through the dissemination of fabricated information against state office-holders.

Text: Hina

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