A member of the Initiative for the Defence of Croatian Vukovar, Vlado Iljkic, said on Monday evening that the situation in the town after the anti-Cyrillic protest earlier in the day was becoming "cataclysmic", urging the government to call an urgent session and impose a moratorium of three to six months on the placement of dual Latin and Cyrillic signs on government institutions in the town.
Iljkic warned that the protesters were getting increasingly nervous. "No one can say what we will do because things are beginning to happen spontaneously," he said, adding that war veterans' organisations were in session throughout the country and "full buses are ready to set out for Vukovar at any moment."
Iljkic was among several hundred protesters who gathered outside the police station in Vukovar demanding that four protesters, including the head of the Initiative, Tomislav Josic, be released from police custody.
The protesters received spiritual support from friars from the local Church of Saints Philip and James, who prayed together with the protesters for peace and a compromise solution that would defuse the situation in the town.
