Ivo Protulipac (4 June 1899 – 31 January 1946) was a Croatian lawyer and Catholic activist, assassinated in 1946, reportedly by the
UDBA
The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name ...
(Yugoslav secret police). He served in the defence of
Marko Hranilović
Marko Hranilović (11 December 1908, Zagreb – 25 September 1931, Zagreb) was a Croatian nationalist and Secretary of the separatist Croatian Rights Youth (, ''HPO'') in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was executed in 1931 after being convicted of ...
in the latter's trial by the Royal Yugoslav government in 1930.
He was the president of the "Union of Croatian Eagles" ("Hrvatski orlovski savez"). When the association was banned by
King Alexander's dictatorship, he reformed it together with
Ivan Merz
Ivan Merz (16 December 1896 – 10 May 1928) was a Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 22, 2003. Ivan Merz promoted the liturgical movement in Croatia and together wi ...
under the name "
Crusaders
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...
" ("Križari").
[Dictatorship of King Alexander and the Roman Catholic Church](_blank)
, cpi.hr; accessed 11 March 2016. He was subsequently imprisoned for this act and bishops Akšamović and Bonefačić were brought in by the authorities for questioning.
He was assassinated, reportedly by
UDBA
The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name ...
agents, in
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...
in 1946. After Croatian independence, Protulipac's remains were exhumed and he was returned to Croatia and buried in
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...
's
Mirogoj cemetery
The Mirogoj City Cemetery (, hr, Gradsko groblje Mirogoj), also known as Mirogoj Cemetery ( hr, Groblje Mirogoj), is a cemetery park that is considered to be among the more noteworthy landmarks in the city of Zagreb. The cemetery inters members o ...
.
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1899 births
1946 deaths
Assassinated Croatian people
Croatian Roman Catholics
Croatian lawyers
Catholic Church in Croatia
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
Roman Catholic activists
People murdered in Italy
Croatian people murdered abroad
Extrajudicial killings
Assassinated Yugoslav people
20th-century assassinated people