A Poster Inside the National Assembly Calls for Killing of the Erased

Alert DateFebruary 23, 2005 Country: Slovenia Address: Ljubljana General Type: Racist violence, Racist discourse Racism and discrimination phenomena: Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Nationalism
Groups affected / Interested in: Ethnic minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Political discourse -parties - orgs Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Political Discourse
Victims Data
Victims Nationality/Ethnic Origin Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian
Victims Gender N/A
Victims Age N/A
Victims Number N/A
Fatalities - deaths N/A
Perpetrators Data
Perpetrators Nationality/Ethnic Origin Slovenian
Perpetrator Gender N/A
Perpetrator Age N/A
Perpetrators Number N/A
Extremist/Organised Group Violence No

On 23 February 2005 a group of erased persons of Slovenia (the erased are the group of 25.671 ex- Yugoslav nationals who were unlawfully deprived of permanent residence in 1992, soon after Slovenia declared independence) that were on hunger strike visited the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia to meet members of the Assembly. At the same time a poster was put up the door of the parliamentary group of the Slovene National Party (SNS) that read: ‘Vsi izbrisani vabljeni na ples, igral vam bo Jelinčič na puško mitraljez!!!!' [All the Erased are invited to a dance, Jelinčič will be playing the machine gun!!!!], Jelinčič being the leader of the SNS parliamentary group. At first Sašo Peče, a member of the SNS parliamentary group and the then Vice-President of the Assembly,  admitted to a reporter, that the poster was put up by the SNS parliamentary group but later denied it, saying that his statement was sarcastic. The then Human Rights Ombudsman strongly protested against the poster, stating that the sign directly calls for killing of human beings and suggested that Sašo Peče should be banned from his function of the Vice-President of the Assembly, which did not happen. The incident was investigated by the police that came to the National Assembly and conducted interviews, but could not identify the person responsible for putting up the poster. As usual in such cases, in May 2005 the police filed a criminal information against an unknown perpetrator, stating that in case further investigation revealed the person responsible, the criminal information would be supplemented by the identity of the perpetrator. Formally the perpetrator was never identified.

Source:

Dnevnik: http://www.dnevnik.si/novice/slovenija/114282

24ur.com: http://24ur.com/novice/slovenija/kazenska-ovadba-zaradi-nestrpnosti.html