SARAJEVO, Jan 3: A few hundred Bosnians on Saturday vented their spleen at political leaders in a shoe-throwing protest in Sarajevo inspired by an Iraqi journalist’s footwear attack on George W. Bush.

Young and old alike threw shoes in downtown Sarajevo at effigies of leading Croat, Muslim and Serb politicians and top international representative in Bosnia, Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak.

Shoes were provided by the protest organisers but some protestors brought their own old footwear.

In their Facebook event page, the organisers urged “citizens to wish a happy New Year to our government leaders by throwing shoes of warning at them.”

Muntazer Al-Zaidi threw both his shoes at Bush during a Baghdad press conference in mid-December in protest at the US leader’s Iraq policy.—AFP