Neo-Nazi Incident at Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts
- On 8 April 2009 a group of ten individuals, declaring themselves as National Socialists, disrupted a roundtable titled “Hate Speech, Nationalism and Neo-Fascism in Slovenia” held at Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. They stayed at the roundtable although they were asked to leave by other participants, argueing that there was no place for intolerance and fascism at the Faculty of Arts. When the group of National Socialists realised the event was being filmed, the majority left but one of them physically attacked one of the participants of the roundtable. The students of The Faculty of Arts stated that the incident was an organized attack since the attackers were known from other similar events where human rights were promoted, especially of Roma and the erased (a group of people, ex- Yugoslav nationals who were unlawfully deprived of permanent residence in 1992, soon after Slovenia declared independence).
- On 7 April 2010, one year after the first incident, a group of neo-Nazis attacked a group of students who were selling copies of Avtonomija, a socially-critical journal, at the Faculty of Arts. A student, known for socializing with neo-Nazis, called his friends on the phone. When the students left the building, three neo-Nazis came up to them and sprayed them with pepper spray and then physically attacked them.
Source:
Dnevnik: http://www.dnevnik.si/tiskane_izdaje/dnevnik/1042258579
Mladina: http://www.mladina.si/tednik/201014/nov_napad_neonacistov
Sources of images below:
2. Željko Stevanič, http://www.mladina.si/
