As we have already reported, one of Fridays’ political cyclists, Anis Ličina, has been arrested again by the police for drug trafficking. This time, he was arrested in Kosovo. Even though nowadays, the Slovenian media (led by the national media outlet, Radio-Television Slovenia – RTVS in particular) and left-wing political activists like to pretend that they have nothing to do with Ličina, it is clear that he was one of the central figures of the protests against the measures intended to stop the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, who has helped both Zoran Stevanović and his anti-vaxx, Russophile party Resni.ca (The Truth Party), as well as the far left in the anti-NATO protests.
It is also important to note that Ličina was one of the architects of the anti-corona rampage in Ljubljana on the 5th of November 2020, where a journalist was severely beaten by Covid-sceptics, another was injured, and a huge amount of financial damage was caused. Together with the organiser and former police officer Zoran Stevanović, who later founded the Resni.ca party, they were one of the main weapons of the media and politicians who took to the streets to fight against the third Janša government.
According to our sources, Stevanović often socialised with Ličina, both during the first anti-Corona protests, as well as during the violent ones under the patronage of Stevanović himself, and some have suggested that Ličina was also involved in other protests as an organiser, as we have been informed by several sources that the two were often seen together at the Petrol station in Kranj having coffee. Although Ličina was in police custody during the protests in September 2021, he took part in Stevanović’s anti-corona protests in November of that year.
Zoran Stevanović’s then-already-established Resni.ca party announced a “protest for the children”, saying that they had “given the criminal regime until today to leave our children alone! Criminals as criminals just did not react!” At the time, Ličina also actively joined the protest, saying that “they are there not only because it is the right thing to do, not only for my children and your children, but because everything has a limit, and when someone goes over the limit, there are consequences! Nobody in the world will lock my children in “rooms” hungry and frightened, not minister Goebbels, not the “Führer” Jajo (Janša), not even GOD himself!!!”
During the protests, Ličina also insulted Slovenian police officers (ironic, given that his colleague Stevanović was once a police officer as well). “This is our city, hey, all of you, f*ck off back to your little villages! I mean, no one here is even from Ljubljana! What do you want? What the f*ck do you want?” Ličina insulted the police officers (without being punished for it) at the time.
Left-wing politicians and journalists had to forcibly “accept” him
Like Stevanović, Slovenian left-wing politicians and media socio-political workers also had to “accept” Ličina. After the violent protests where a journalist was seriously injured, the national media outlet RTV Slovenia even allowed him to give a prime-time interview where he advised journalists to wear an RTV Slovenia jacket so that they would not be attacked by his hooligans. Later, Dominika Švarc Pipan, the fallen Minister of Justice, cancelled the fines for the people who took part in the savage anti-corona protests.
Ličina belongs to the extreme Left
Although some associate his protest “partner” with the far right, Ličina actually belongs to the extreme Russophile left, which is very similar to the far right (as is to be expected according to political horseshoe theory). He has participated in both pro-Hamas and anti-Nato protests, along with well-known street faces of the Slovenian political left, especially the far-left party Levica (the Left).
Just a few days after the massacre of Israeli civilians on the 7th of October 2023, the far-left Movement for Palestinian Rights organised a rally on Thursday in Ljubljana’s Republic Square, where there was no shortage of racist, anti-Semitic content and agitation in support of Hamas. Meanwhile, Ličina has already shown far-left anti-Semitic tendencies in the past: on social media, he responded to a comic image of an Israeli soldier wearing a Nazi uniform by replying, “Now, the way I see things, and I’m not stupid, they were to blame for everything back then, too.”
Ličina and the Left party’s street fighters also found themselves shoulder to shoulder on the anniversary of Slovenia’s NATO membership. At the time, opponents of Slovenia’s NATO membership called for Slovenia to leave NATO on the 20th anniversary of the country’s entry into the organisation, and staged a protest called “No NATO, leave us alone!” The Left party actively supported the protest at the time and participated in it with senior politicians from its own party, who marched with Ličina, in a common struggle against the American “enemy”.
It is therefore clear to whom Ličina belongs, even though today everyone will deny it: the Left party, the ruling left politicians who were brought to power by the street protests, the Russophile “peacemakers,” and the Hamas militants who shout anti-Semitic slogans around Ljubljana. Left politics has used Ličina as a political tool. Now, it is time for them to suffer the political consequences.
I. K.
