Residents of the returnee settlement Baćevići in Mostar reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton that the settlement was plastered with offensive posters, MUP spokesman Ljudevit Marić confirmed for BHRT.
Marić stated that they received a report this morning, and that members of the Criminal Police Department are on the ground and conducting an investigation.
As reported by the media, the locals said that last night several unknown persons attacked Serbian children on the playground, and that the neighborhood was plastered with posters with swastikas, the letter “U” and “HVO.
“They asked our children who peeled and removed those stickers. A boy came forward and was attacked and punched. My grandson called his father, my son-in-law, who came and found unknown young men attacking and harassing the children. He tried to drive them away, so that they would then threaten that the elders would come and kill them all in Baćevići,” Dušan Golo, president of the Coordination of Serbs in Mostar, told Srna news agency.
The Minister for Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sevlid Hurtić, condemned the attack and appealed to the competent institutions to identify and prosecute the attackers.
Hurtić told Srna that he strongly condemns every form of fascism in BiH, especially when it comes to the returnee community.
“I will always react, condemn and, of course, visit the returnees to give them full support. I will ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton to react as soon as possible, catch the miscreants and prosecute them. If they are caught, released and nothing happens, they will be given strength to repeat it,” Hurtić stressed.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior of the HNK told BHRT that they did not receive a report about the attack, but only about posters with offensive content.
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