Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Zagreb on Saturday night to attend a concert by the famous Croatian rock singer Marko Perković - Thompson, BGNES reported. The event was announced as the largest concert in the country's history with over 450,000 tickets sold. The central part of the city was blocked, with over 6,200 police officers participating in the security.

Thompson performed his signature songs. On the streets of Zagreb, his fans flocked with Croatian flags, and many perceived the concert not only as a musical event, but also as a symbolic act of Croatian freedom and thoughtlessness.

Marko Perković is the founder of the hard rock band Thompson. In 2008, he was named the third most influential person in Croatian show business.

Marko Perković was born in 1967. In 1991. After Croatia declared its independence in 1991, the Serbian army began its aggression against the country. Perković joined the Croatian National Guard, where he received an American Thompson submachine gun, which is where his nickname came from. During the Serbian aggression, he defended his hometown of Čavoglave. It was then that he wrote one of the most popular songs during the war - "The Čavoglave Battalion". I BGNES