Photo: Siniša Lauković, Vijesti

Human Rights Action (HRA) condemns the nationalist, Nazi and vulgar messages written on the facade of “Drago Milović” elementary school in Tivat, as well as the regional division of this school and kindergarten in Donja Lastva. Also worrying is the fact that similar graffiti were earlier written on the same school.

We note that in March 2012 hate speech graffiti (“Oh Ustashas, you just wait, there is a deep grave waiting for you”) was written on the wall of “Drago Milović” elementary school. As HRA was then informed, Security Centre Tivat officials have identified two juveniles, and regarding the event, the Prosecutor’s Office stated that this case was not a criminal offense but a misdemeanour. The Regional Misdemeanour Body in Kotor stated that there was no sufficient evidence that the identified juveniles wrote the mentioned graffiti, although they admitted writing some other graffiti, and that they were warned.

Having in mind other frequent manifestation of violence in the form of graffiti motivated by racism, stoning buses with fans from abroad and the like, we appeal to state bodies to be persistent in finding and punishing the perpetrators of this incident. If it is found that the perpetrators are juveniles, we particularly appeal that appropriate measures be imposed on them to ensure that they really consider their destructive beliefs and their consequences.

Human Rights Action team