‘Shoot her in the head’, was one of the comments on the screen of Nermin Sulejmanovic on his live video on Instagram. On the other side of the screen, Nermin’s partner was badly beaten, and, a little later, on live video on Instagram, was killed with a gun.
No one whose messages of encouragement and support appeared on Sulejmanovic’s screen on the August day will be sanctioned.
The reason – the Prosecutor’s Office does not consider these comments to be a criminal offense, says the Prosecutor’s Office of Tuzla Canton (TC).
What does the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) say?
After the murder of Nizama Hecimovic, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the FBiH announced that the police would request the punishment of all those who, with their comments during the live broadcast, may have committed a criminal offense.
In the comments, hundreds of followers liked Sulejmanovic’s live broadcast, urging him to continue the violence, expressing their love and support for him, and praising the popularity he has gained.
However, the Prosecutor’s Office of TC says that the comments are not a criminal offense in this case.
“The fact that someone liked or approved it does not have a criminal sanction. It simply does not exist in the Criminal Code,” Admir Arnautovic stated, spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office of TC.
The Internet is faster than the law in other countries as well
That violence and extremist content are insufficiently regulated by law in most countries around the world was recently explained by Harvard’s Jim Waldo, an American computer scientist and Chief Technology Officer of Harvard University.
“In the United States (U.S.), we have the First Amendment, which provides strong protections for freedom of speech and expression. So it’s an open question whether even copying extremist content like this would be considered illegal. We faced this months ago in New Zealand as well,” he stated.
He added that work is currently being done at many international levels to determine what can be done to stop or limit the spread of such content via the Internet, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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