The University of Sarajevo students who glorified the war criminal Ratko Mladic said that “due to the media lynching, hysteria and threats to their lives that they received because of the attitude expressed on their Instagram profile, they have no intention of continuing their studies in Sarajevo”.
Student Valentina Vujicic stated that she is in “fear for her personal safety” due to, as she claims, “very dangerous threats she received via social media”.
“I don’t want to expose myself in public because of my safety. On the other hand, I don’t know what will happen, but I definitely think that we are not safe at the university and I think that, whatever the outcome of the situation, we should distance ourselves from that place,” she pointed out.
They claim that the photo in question was taken in 2021 and that “it is not clear to them why it has now been released on social media and why raising three fingers qualifies as a criminal offense”.
“We had no intention of provoking anyone, nor of inciting hatred. Raising three fingers is in our tradition. We watched colleagues of the Bosniak nationality glorify and celebrate the leaders of their people and it was not controversial to us, so why is it controversial when we mention our leaders,” she added.
It should be recalled that photos taken from the private Instagram profiles of two female students of the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies, in which they glorify war criminals, have spread across the Internet these days.
Namely, as the screenshot recorded from the student’s Instagram profile, one of the two students raised three fingers in a T-Shirt with the image of the Chetnik Duke Mitar Maksimovic. The so-called “story”, that is, she published her Instagram story in the form of the “Close friends” option, which allows her post to be visible only to certain people.
Another student published a photo of the criminal Mladic with the text “Sentenced to immortality. You were and will remain our hero”.
Allegedly, some of their colleagues from the college and friends reacted to the given content, to which one of the students replied “It’s good we killed you.”
Yesterday it was announced that the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will form a case based on this incident.
Also, the president of the BiH entity Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik offered these female students to continue their education in this entity, Klix.ba reports.
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Photo: Crna Hronika
