Croatian Minister Resigns Over Gun-Firing Incident on Video

(Bloomberg) -- Croatian Agriculture Minister Josip Dabro resigned Saturday after a video emerged of him firing a handgun from a moving car.

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The 42-year-old politician from the right-wing Homeland Movement, a partner in coalition with the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, said the video was shot years ago before he was appointed minister. Also a deputy prime minister, Dabro said in a Facebook post he is resigning “for moral reasons.”

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The ruling party of Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who started his third consecutive term after April elections, has seen more than a dozen ministers resign amid allegations of abuse of power and corruption.

No-one was reported as having been injured after the shooting that appeared from the video to be outside a village in eastern Croatia.

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