In the wake of the recent brutal attack by an Islamist who killed a teenager and injured five people, the results of the left’s immigration policy are becoming increasingly clear. This is just another brutal attack in a series of attacks in Europe, while Slovenia has a President at the helm of the country who continues to pardon migrant smugglers.
Not only is she pardoning them, she is even rewarding those who help in the smuggling. As we have already reported, Nataša Pirc Musar awarded the left-wing activist Katarina Bervar Sternad with the President of the Republic of Slovenia award, even though she has a history of undermining not only the Slovenian legal order, but even Schengen itself.
“This is an Islamist attack linked to the Islamic State,” the Austrian Minister told a press conference, adding that the attacker appeared to have been radicalised online recently. At the same time, Gerhard Karner called for decisive action. “Imprison and deport,” said the minister from the People’s Party (ÖVP). And if leaders around the world are opting for imprisonment and deportation of illegal migrants, we could say that here, these brutal people are even getting help to remain free.
The President of the Republic of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, took office on the 23rd of December 2022, and to date, she has pardoned six prisoners (including one woman). A review of the pardons shows that the “lucky ones” are mostly foreigners, in most cases migrant smugglers. It should be noted that the pardon of the three smugglers with final convictions was opposed by prosecutors and judges, as well as by the Ministry of Justice. MEP Branko Grims of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) rightly asked for further clarifications of this decision, but the President dismissed him and accused him of “misusing the migration issue and difficult personal stories for populist purposes in order to score cheap political points”.
As we reported some time ago, Katarina Bervar Sternad, Director of the Legal Centre for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (PIC), was involved in helping smuggling rings in the Balkans. We have already written about this in many of our previous articles. Slovenian NGOs allegedly distributed brochures to migrants in Velika Kladuša with instructions on how to enter Slovenia illegally and manipulate the asylum system. In 2018, Sternad instructed the police to go find the migrants at Učakovci, whom the Legal Centre PIC supposedly advised on how to claim their right to asylum.
Nevertheless, the President of the Republic of Slovenia awarded her the President of the Republic of Slovenia Award, which already raised a number of questions at the time, and these questions are even more relevant today, which is why we have asked her, among other things, how she views the award in light of all the massacres taking place across Europe. At the time, the Legal Centre PIC was actively guiding migrants on how to circumvent the asylum procedure. Critics argue that this practice helps to bring in terrorists and other “Islamists” who shed the blood of the innocent.
Tanja Brkič
