Summary: A new cartoon poking fun at Battistelli's bicycles and the perceived threat these are under

There's a new cartoon circulating again.

"Feel free to make use of it if you like," the person who sent it to us wrote. It came with this comment: "VP4 [Topić] apparently hired additional security personnel to protect the prez's bike (evidence attached)."

"There's also the possibility that further crackdowns on staff (not only staff representatives) will be justified this way."This is yet another example of scorn of the message from Željko Topić. The Mercedes symbol in the wheels is not a coincidence (alleged bribery) and the caricature, when zoomed in, shows "Made in Croatia" written across the bike.

People are not taking seriously the alleged incident, probably because they don't trust a word that comes out of Topić's mouth and they can foresee how it will be exploited to justify unbelievably expensive bodyguards (six of them!) for a man almost in his 70s and under no obvious threat (except perhaps his own chronic paranoia which goes a long way back). There's also the possibility that further crackdowns on staff (not only staff representatives) will be justified this way. ⬆