Activists and politicians across Croatia have condemned the burning of a carnival effigy, which showed a same-sex couple with their child.
The festival took place on Sunday in the small southern town of Imotski in front of hundreds of people. A large effigy showing two men embracing each other was torched in front of a cheering crowd, to the sound of funeral music.
The incident comes just weeks after Croatia's Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to foster children as