“Hajdarović certainly deserves all the death threats he has received, and he deserves to see those threats carried out. Croatia has no need for such a man; let him go to Israel if he loves Jews and their money. The national revolution, which awaits us in 10 to 15 years, will sweep from the Croatian stage all those involved in spreading disinformation and discrediting Croatia during the period from 1945 until the founding of the new NDH. It is highly probable that Hajdarović will find himself among those gentlemen who will be hanging from lampposts across Croatia!”
This is just one of the death threats received over the past month by Miljenko Hajdarović, a young history teacher at Šenkovec Primary School and editor of the electronic journal “Croatian History Portal.” Hajdarović’s friends say he receives two to three death threats daily, some of which were published under an online article titled “M. Hajdarov – Jew-lover, Communist, Fake Historian, and Traitor!” posted by an individual identified as F. B. Hajdarović reported the threats to the police two weeks ago, but they have yet to take any action. Furthermore, F. B. has since launched a Facebook group titled “Hajdarović – Fake Historian and Traitor.” As of yesterday, the group had 204 members.
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On the Museum in the Media F. B. also founded the Facebook group – “As a citizen, I filed a criminal complaint with the police. What they have done, I do not know. Whenever I call them, they say they are working on the case,” Hajdarović told us, emphasizing that he is concerned for his life and the lives of his family, given that more than 15 days have passed since the report. Hajdarović does not know F. B. personally and has never seen him, so he can only speculate about the motives behind the threats.
“In July of last year, I was part of a group of 24 educators from Croatia—teachers of history, ethics, philosophy, and religion—who visited Israel to learn about the history of Israel and the Jewish people, particularly the Holocaust. It was then that I came up with the idea to establish a Holocaust museum at the school, which opened on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the only museum of its kind in Croatia, which is why it received significant media coverage,” said Hajdarović, who suspects this was the catalyst for the public lynching.
In addition to publicly labeling Hajdarović—so far without consequence—as a “communist,” a “glorifier of the criminal and dictator Tito,” a “spreader of the communist myth of Jasenovac,” a “Jewish mercenary,” and a “person brainwashing students with various Zionist myths,” while simultaneously downplaying the role of Poglavnik Pavelić, F. B. published Hajdarović’s personal data online: his photograph, home address, mobile number, and home telephone number.
Incitement to Murder Carries a Sentence of 5 to 15 Years Following this, an anonymous user posted the following threat online: “Is that really his address? If he’s home, it’ll be Auschwitz and Dresden combined in 15 minutes. If my child went to a teacher like that, I’d blow up the whole school.”
What the police and other state authorities intend to do in this case remains unknown, as we were unable to obtain a response yesterday—a situation that is quite unusual given the recent extensive public debate regarding anti-Semitism.
A Medium Like Any Other “There is no longer any doubt. The internet is a medium like any other, and all threats posted online must be treated as such,” said attorney Veljko Miljević.
“This primarily concerns incitement to commit a serious criminal offense—murder—for which the law mandates a prison sentence of five to 15 years,” Miljević stated. He added that this also constitutes an offense against the freedoms and rights of citizens, as well as a violation of Article 201 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the public disclosure of an individual’s personal data.
Miljević believes that, in addition to F. B., the police should investigate and file charges against all those who joined him in committing these criminal acts.
Written by: Ivana Kalogjera Brkić
