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Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in <strong>2015</strong><br />
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courtyard, they threw rocks at him and when he yelled that he<br />
would call the police, they sang the song “Oh, Croatian mother”.<br />
The returnee reported the incident to the police.<br />
Threats and physical assaults were also recorded in Virginmost<br />
and in the centre of Zagreb. During the year, students of the<br />
Serbian Orthodox Secondary School in Zagreb were attacked on<br />
several occasions by fellow students from a nearby secondary<br />
school. After a round table entitled “The Second War”, held in<br />
the Croatian national theatre building in Rijeka on August 5, a<br />
group of theatre visitors were physical attacked by hardline<br />
right-wingers who shouted abuse and threats. On right-wing<br />
web portals (Dnevno.hr, Maxportal.hr), sinister comments and<br />
threats continued after this incident: “Take them immediately<br />
before the firing squad”, “Get that shit out of Rijeka” and “Oh,<br />
man, no one has a nice little gun handy. Come on, shoot him and<br />
his guard dogs, period. A stone around their necks and throw<br />
them into the deep…”.<br />
/4 Damage and Destruction to Property,<br />
Buildings and Graveyards<br />
An increase in the number of incidents involving damage, destruction<br />
or theft of property owned by Serb citizens or institutions,<br />
mostly the Serbian Orthdox Church, was recorded in <strong>2015</strong>.<br />
Devastation of anti-fascist monuments, which had started in<br />
Croatia in the early 1990s, continued, including the devastation<br />
of monuments erected in memory of the Serbs killed in the<br />
1991–95 war.<br />
/4.1. Damage, Destruction and Theft of Private Property<br />
On January 19, in Vlaška street in the centre of Zagreb, a car with<br />
Belgrade plates was smashed by a concrete flower pot. The car’s<br />
owner refused to report the incident to the police. Four students<br />
who came for a swim to the Pasjača beach in Konavle (southern<br />
Croatia) on August 10, were shocked to find the car with<br />
Belgrade plates belonging to the father of one them, damaged<br />
upon their return from the beach. Two big-lettered messages,<br />
“Operation Storm 1995, beat it“ and “You are not welcome“,<br />
engraved on the car. On the feast of Saint Elijah the Prophet on