“… A stranger tripped me up, so I fell to my knees while running and then caught myself on my hands. In the process, the second unknown perpetrator kicked me two or three times in the back, which hurt me a lot,” one of the policemen assaulted at the anarchist rally in Ljubljana said in his verbal criminal complaint. He was brutally beaten while doing his job and had to go to the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana for his injuries after the incident. He made a verbal criminal complaint or a proposal for prosecution against his attacker(s).
After a horde of anarchists from the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair destroyed private property and assaulted and beat several police officers last Saturday, one of the police officers filed a verbal criminal charge against the attackers. The police officer, who will not be named due to the protection of personal data, stated in his verbal criminal complaint that he had been harmed, and the verbal criminal complaint is, in fact, a proposal for prosecution.
In the record of the verbal criminal complaint, the policeman began by explaining the circumstances of the event, namely that on the 8th of July 2023, in the evening hours, he was on duty, protecting the event in the Ljubljana area and that at around 10.15 p.m., while monitoring the crowd, he and his police colleague noticed “an unidentified young woman who wanted to spray-paint graffiti on a city r bus at the intersection of Masarykova and Metelkova Streets.”. He explained that, in order to prevent the crime, he and his colleague ran towards the unknown woman, who was trying to disappear in the crowd.
“As I got close enough to where I could grab her with my arm, a stranger tripped me up, so I fell to my knees while running and then caught myself on my hands. In the process, the second unknown perpetrator kicked me two or three times in the back, which hurt me a lot,” the police officer described the incident in his verbal criminal complaint. Although he got up as quickly as he could, he could not see or identify his attacker because of the large crowd.
He went on to explain that he felt severe pain in his knees and back and that he became nauseous, and that his colleague who was with him was not in his field of vision. During the attack, the police officer was wearing a body cam, which must have recorded everything, as it was not injured during the fall. He and his colleague immediately informed the competent authorities about the attack, as the officer had contacted the University Medical Centre Ljubljana because of the light injuries he had sustained.
On their website, the anarchists rant about collective freedom, social equality and solidarity, but then turn to violence against those who think differently than they do. They even brag about their vandalism on Twitter. After the event in Ljubljana, the anarchism.info profile wrote: “In connection with the large demonstration during the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair, on the 8th of July in Ljubljana, Slovenia, some cops and cop cars where “handled”.” They even added the hashtag #ACAB.
The Balkan Anarchist Book Fair is anything but a “cultural” event. It is more like an organised horde of anarchists, vandals and thugs who gather in different places every year. Like all radical leftists, they share the same ideas. They blame everything in the world on nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia or any other form of violence, and then they come to Ljubljana and attack the police.
Ana Horvat
