Hateful graffiti that has been covering the facades of colleges, schools, buildings and houses throughout Serbia for months has also appeared on the Catholic church in the center of Belgrade.
The facade at the entrance is painted. Catholic Church St. Peter's Parish in Macedonia. The wave of political targeting of students and professors also affected religious buildings. It is written on the facade with red spray paint graphite "FCK BLK".
The question is whether those who write the graffiti know that there is a Catholic church behind the facade or they know it very well, because Cardinal Ladislav Nemet, Belgrade's archbishop and metropolitan, even last year, on the occasion of a large protest March 15, provided support to students.
He then told them in a written statement: "Your courage and determination to fight for justice and fairness are a sign of hope and faith in a better future for Serbia."
Last weekend, the Faculty of Science was awarded. Hateful messages were spray-painted on the concrete pillars and facade of the building. Upon the report of the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Goran Roglić, police officers from the Stari Grad Police Station went to the scene.
In the announcement of the MUP it is stated that the police interviewed the dean, took other necessary measures and actions, and that the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office was also informed about the incident.
It was announced and Ministry of Education with a statement in which it condemned the "increasingly frequent practice of using the facilities of educational institutions to send political messages by writing graffiti, putting up banners and pasting stickers and posters".
Regarding the graffiti at the Faculty of Science, the Ministry of Education announced that it believes that the competent state authorities will find the perpetrators as soon as possible and punish them in accordance with the law.
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"I don't want my child to see such messages when he goes to school, and I don't want to see them either. I know that the city services will not remove them, so I decided to do it myself," Lazar Petrović, a resident of Palilula, told N1.
Rade Đurić, lawyer Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS), says that the removal of graffiti with hateful messages should not be treated as a violation, because it is a kind of civil resistance to the spread of the culture of violence. He told N1: "Hate graffiti is not part of the planned whole of any building, so I don't see why a citizen shouldn't have the right to remove something that shouldn't be there."
U Constitution of the Republic of Serbia it says that "any incitement and incitement of racial, national, religious or other inequality, hatred and intolerance is prohibited and punishable".
In the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination, in Article 11, hate speech is mentioned, and it is included in severe forms of discrimination in Article 13. Association for the purpose of discrimination is also punishable.
The Criminal Code stipulates that for various forms of hate speech, a prison sentence of three months to eight years is prescribed.
As Vreme already wrote, two activists of the informal civic initiatives "Zrenjanin choirs" and "Guerrilla bike" were detained last week after removing political stickers "Yellow Thieves" and writing graffiti "Students win". Misdemeanor charges were filed against them.
In yesterday's student action of distributing stickers in Kruševac, the communal police fined two young men who pasted the stickers "Students are winning" on a pole. The municipal police also called the intervention police and wrote them fines, and the gathered citizens collected 10.000 dinars on the spot, which is the amount of the fine.
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