After being verbally attacked in the center of Zagreb a few days ago, while sitting and drinking coffee, one of Croatia's best writers posted a new threat on Facebook yesterday, written on the facade of the building in which he lives.
"I found this today on the building where I live. The threat is obvious and unequivocal. And I take it very seriously. I know, like you, from which side it is coming. I know, like you, who its inspirers and sponsors are," he wrote in a Facebook post, N1 Zagreb reports.
Jergović stated that the meaning of the threat is twofold.
"On the one hand, they want the victim to be terrified, to at least feel uncomfortable, until they realize what the content of the threat is. The second, however, is more important - to create discomfort among the victim's neighbors. It is not entirely pleasant in frightened societies, under fascist and racist ideologies, to live in a building in which one is exposed and publicly marked: a Roma, a Jew, a Serb, a Yugoslav, a leftist... The reader will continue the series he started himself," he wrote on Facebook.
Jergović came and said that the simplest thing, of course, would be to leave.
"This would achieve the meaning of this graffiti, especially the work: 'Our country, our rules', written in characteristic blue. But since it's about me, let me also say this: although I will not file a report with the police, simply because I don't have the time, nor do I trust the police in these types of cases, I will make every attack on myself and my loved ones public. And I will do everything to inform everyone who, anywhere in the world, publishes my books or writes about them. And one more thing: the police, when you report such cases to them, always ask - do you suspect anyone. That question is humiliating, but this time I have an answer to it. I suspect the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, and the Minister of the Interior, Davor Božinović. Thank you for your attention," Jergović wrote.
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