Marka, also known as Markov trg) is a square located in the old part of Zagreb, Croatia, called Gradec or Gornji grad (English: Upper town).

[1] The story of Matija Gubec, the leader of the great uprising of the Croatian peasants, would also be extracted from the long history of Mark's Square.

Another police officer who was guarding the Parliament on the opposite side of the square noticed what was happening, so he took out his personal weapon and fired at the attacker.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, President Zoran Milanović held a press conference in which he called the government to protect the central state institutions, saying that "they are not a tourist destination".

On Tuesday around 9:40 a.m. on 12 June 2024, on the south side of Zagreb's Mark's Square, a 57-year-old doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire.

The male person who set himself on fire on St. Mark's Square in Zagreb and was treated at the Traumatology Clinic of the KBC Sisters of Mercy in the intensive care unit where he later died of his injuries after 9 p.m., according to the press release.

Although the police did not announce his identity, it was found out that he was a 57-year-old man from Virje, who lived in Koprivnica, a pensioner, who previously worked at Croatian Railways Cargo.