March 4, 2019
Although the whole point of masquerade is to scare the winter away, it was precisely the warm weather that made this Pust weekend so successful this year. Saturday morning was extremely pleasant in Ljubljana, as you can see from the pictures below, with locals in costumes cheering the visiting masks in a parade.
Reports of large crowds celebrating one way or another also come from other parts of the country.
Moreover, in a celebrity twist, various stories in the media claim that on Friday night a large party crowd in Ptuj irritated a drunk Olympian Filip Flisar to the point that he attacked and broke the shield of a police van, which landed him in jail for several hours.
As reported by the STA, after his release the athlete is quoted as saying: "I'm not running away from my actions," adding that a difficult season had left him with some frustration to release.
He went on to explain: "There was a thousand people [at the carnival] who were all very drunk and everybody tries telling you something, everybody's getting at you…[But] II have to face up to the consequences of my actions, after all, they are my doing. Let this be a cautionary tale for me and everybody else. Let's love each other and everybody will be happier."
While the general question being raised is whether or not such a behaviour becomes a national hero, we’d like to know what Filip Flisar was doing out on Friday night in Ptuj without wearing a costume.
