Media: Panic in Croatia regarding the judgment of shout „for land ready’’

On the concert that was held in 2015, Roso sang a song from the author and singer Marko Perkovi Thompson Bojna avoglave, which starts with Ustashas shout for land ready.

The first information about the decision of the High Misdemeanor Court was pbished by „Jutarnji list'', marking it as a „precedent'', according to which the Ustasha's greeting s illegal.
Davorin Karai, Thompson's lawyer, says that it isn't precedent, because, as he asserts, there are no precedents in Croatian justice system and that it is possible that some other Trial Chamber concludes the opposite.
Only the parliament can forbid the greeting „for land ready'', says Karai for portal „Narod''.
The president of Zgreb's county court, Ivan Turudi, says that the decision of the Court is what it is, but it doesn't mean that it will be mandatory in future cases.
Turudi said that it is very likely that the Second Magistrates Court in the similar situation makes a different decision.
For that decision to be mandatory for all the Magistrates' Court, explains Turudi, it is necessary to come up with a legal interpretation which states that this greeting is a misdemeanour, respectively, „that anyone who greets with it is making a misdemeanour''.
Ante api, the president of the opposition party „Desno'', says that this judgment is neither a payoff with CDF, nor with Thompson, but it is, as he says, „an attack on the historical libertarian essence of the Croatian people and no Croat should respect it''.
As the Croatian portal „Narod'' remised, api notified that no Croat should be silent about this „ideological aggression in the bosom of Croatia''.
Because of posting this news, he labeled „Jutarnji list'' newspaper as a media known for numerous attacks on ...

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