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An indictment was therefore filed against Sze Yat Lung for disturbing public order and peace, and since the defendant has a temporary residence in the Republic of Croatia, the police also initiated emergency proceedings in accordance with the Aliens Act, and sentenced the singing Chinese to expulsion from the country and a ban on returning to the same within three months
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Did you condemn my client because he is Chinese or because he is an Ustasha?' This question was asked in a somewhat shrill voice by the aspiring BI lawyer from Split as soon as he stepped into the office of the head of the real estate branch of the Makarska Criminal Court; he decided, without any particular foundation, to perform confidently and penetratingly, when he was already destined to represent Sze Yat Lung, a 44-year-old Chinese national, by official duty.

The day before - just when the Croatian Prime Minister, together with other leaders of the free and democratic world, visited Auschwitz, keeping a candlelight vigil - the media published exotic news: the said Sze Yat Lung was arrested by the police because he was in a cafe at a gas station in Grubine, in the municipality of Podbablje not far from Imotski, during the television broadcast of the match of the Croatian national handball team, he sang Ustasha songs.

"It was about songs with unacceptable messages and content that cause hatred and intolerance," said the Split-Dalmatia Police Department.

An indictment was therefore filed against Sze Yat Lung for disturbing public order and peace, and since the defendant has a temporary residence in the Republic of Croatia, the police also initiated emergency proceedings in accordance with the Aliens Act, and sentenced the singing Chinese to expulsion from the country and a ban on returning to the same within three months.

The sentence is not yet final, which prompted the Split lawyer to go to Imotski and try to overturn it.

The harshness of the sanction must have been contributed by the fact that Sze Yat Lung is a recidivist when it comes to disturbing public order and peace: in February of last year he was arrested because, also on a sporting occasion, also in front of a catering establishment, he saluted with his right hand raised and shouted the Ustasha slogan. Ready for home', to the joy of the gathered children.

Then he explained in detail to the journalist of Slobodna Dalmacija that he adores the Ustasha and the Ustasha ideology, that this is why he came to Croatia where he feels phenomenal, how he is a proud right-winger and a neo-Nazi, how he hates Serbs from the bottom of his veins, how Serbs are worse than the occupiers from Beijing, how in Hong Kong - where he comes from and where he resides when he is not in Imotski - he regularly goes to matches when Croatian athletes perform and shouts 'Kill the Serb!' Chinese national origin.

Faced with the fact that the head of the branch of the Misdemeanor Court remained silent in confusion and looked at him palely, the BI lawyer decided to repeat the question:

'So did you expel my client from Croatia because he is Chinese or because he is an Ustasha?'

'What are you talking about, mate?' the judge finally spoke. 'Your client was punished because he sang Ustasha songs in a public place, and those are songs - let me see, it says, yes - 'with unacceptable messages and content that cause hatred and intolerance'.'

"Then why is it that not a single Croat who sang songs with 'unacceptable messages and content that cause hatred', which were sung by thousands on thousands of different occasions, was ever punished, let alone expelled from Croatia?" the lawyer flushed.

'Why are you asking me that, colleague? I'm just running the Misdemeanor Court branch in this hellhole. What do you want from me?'

'I want an answer to a simple question: why has only one Chinese been killed for glorifying the Ustasha in Croatia, if there are any Chinese among the Croats of the Ustasha? It turns out that Croatia is unique in that it applies racial laws in the prosecution of supporters of the racial theory. It turns out that Ustaše is preserved as a protected national asset that can be used with impunity only by Croats, while it is strictly forbidden for members of other nationalities to propagate it. What is the attitude towards others and different?'

'Colleague!' snorted the judge furiously. 'Your client was punished for breaking the law. The spread of fascist propaganda is prohibited by law. So write a complaint and don't screw me over! Do I need to remind you that anti-fascist values ​​are written in the Constitution of this country?'

'Excuse me, but if you decided to prove your commitment to anti-fascism on a Chinese man, isn't that offensively racist? Or, to be more precise, offensive Ustasha?

'What is Ustasha in punishing someone who sings Ustasha songs?!'

'So that you are punishing him just because he is Chinese.'

'You're insinuating, mate!' thundered the judge. 'You are grossly insinuating! If your client was only Chinese, and not someone who raises his right hand in public places and shouts 'Ready for home', we would certainly not expel him from the country. We have nothing against the Chinese! We sentenced him to exile because he is an Ustasha!'

'Then why don't you apply the same punishment to the Ustasha, who are Croats?' croaked the lawyer slyly. 'Why don't you impose the sentence of expulsion on Thompson, who starts his concerts with the Ustasha salute, and thousands in the audience salute him? Why don't you expel Božidar Alic from Croatia, who practices his own child shouting 'Ready for home' and then spreads that video on social networks? Why don't you punish the president of the Republic who...'

"Okay, well, we can't sentence the Croats to expulsion from Croatia," protested the judge. 'That would be absurd. They are moving out en masse anyway. I mean, they don't need a court to get out of here. The demographic situation is catastrophic.'

'I know, but this shows that a person of Chinese nationality is not only ideal, but also the only object for the demonstration of Croatian anti-fascism. And this means that the basic feature of Croatian anti-fascism is racism. And that the Law on Disturbing Public Order and Peace, when it comes down to the level of practice, is a classic racial law.'

'Come on mate!' the judge flared again. 'Well, you can't accuse us of being racist because we condemn the Ustasha. That's bizarre!'

'You are condemning the Chinese!' insisted the lawyer. 'If this Ustasha was a Croat, you would not condemn him, that is quite clear. The only undesirable Ustashas in this country are the ones with slanted eyes. You can see that even the newspapers are making fun of your decision.'

'I'm sick of the yellow press!'

'There, you have racial prejudices against the media as well.'

'Enough mate!' the referee cut him off. 'How do you not understand that you cannot demarcate and selectively observe a specific object in that way? You cannot even ask the question whether your client was punished because he is Chinese or because he is an Ustasa. Each case is unique and complete. Everything is taken into account!'

'If so, can we conclude that my client was convicted as an Ustasha according to the anti-fascist line, while he was convicted as a Chinese according to the racist, more precisely Ustasha line? And when those two lines come together, you know what it means.'

'What does that mean?'

"It means that this court, as an image and example of this state and its official policy, stands on the course of anti-fascist Ustaštvo. That is, Ustasha anti-fascism, as you prefer.'

'Those are fiscal tricks, mate! Cheap jokes. Come on, write a nice complaint, and stop bullshitting me. I'm busy.'

'Have you thought about what will happen to my client when he leaves Croatia?' the lawyer was pulling the last cards from his sleeve. 'Your decision might go to his head. I hope I don't have to remind you what Communist China does to people like him.'

'There, you've finally made a reasonable argument…' thought the judge, looking genuinely concerned.

'Should we throw a convinced Croatian Ustasha, even if he is of Chinese origin, into the jaws of the Great Serbian regime in Beijing?' the lawyer was grasping at straws.

'So what should I do with that Ustasha?'

'Can you deport him somewhere without him leaving Croatia?'

'Like where?'

'For example in Jasenovac.'

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