Krešimir Radušić, a plumber born in Zagreb in 1961, found himself overnight the target of numerous insults and direct death threats after an old Facebook photo of his was used in a post that incorrectly linked him to a fatal incident at Jankomir psychiatric hospital. Radušić is currently on site in Dubrovnik, where he has been working for three months, and has reported the matter to the Dubrovnik police.
According to him, someone took his old Facebook picture and published it claiming he was one of the technicians from Jankomir, the one in the black t-shirt. The Facebook page "Narodni reporteri" published his identity and photograph in the context of the Jankomir case, resulting in a flood of insults and direct death threats in his inbox. Radušić's profile was buried under messages from unknown individuals who called him a murderer and threatened physical retribution.
Radušić stated that he had received death threats, threats to kill his wife, and threats regarding children he does not have, as well as his mother. He said he was going to the police in Dubrovnik to report all of this. In the messages he provided to the Dnevnik.hr editorial team, severe and vulgar insults, curses, and calls for retribution are visible, including "Murderer" and "Better the police catch you and you stay in prison because it is not safe for you".
The page "Narodni reporteri" removed the disputed claims and published a public apology, admitting that they had not verified the information before publication. The page administrators stated that during their investigation into the death of a patient at Jankomir psychiatric hospital, they had published the name and photograph of Krešimir Radušić, incorrectly linking him to the individuals involved in the disputed intervention. They added that Krešimir Radušić has no connection to the event and was not an employee of the aforementioned hospital.
The page administrators also explained that his name had appeared among the data they received during the investigation, which they had not sufficiently verified before publishing. They publicly and unambiguously apologised to Krešimir Radušić for the false accusation and the damage their post may have caused him. The case is now in the hands of the police.
