Tena Tucak died in 2005 when an arcade-style claw machine weighing 78 kilograms fell on her in a café in the Croatian coastal town of Sibenik. She was three years old. Another child was injured.
Twelve years later, the owner of the café, Mario Poduriljko, and the man who installed the machine, Miroslav Matan, were both sentenced to a year in prison for endangering public safety, exchangeable for a period of community service.
Matan was registered as living in Livno, a town just over the border in Bosnia and Herzegovina; his case was transferred, but it was only this year that Matan began doing community service assigned to him by the authorities in Livno.
Such cases are not uncommon.
Please login to your account below if you are already a Premium Subscriber.
Our Premium Service gives you full access to all content published on BalkanInsight.com, including analyses, investigations, comments, interviews and more. Choose your subscription today and get unparalleled in-depth coverage of the Southern and Eastern Europe.
If you have trouble logging in or any other questions regarding you account, please contact us