“Serbian Zhirinovsky” did not let grant eaters disrupt the presentation of his book
The leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, who is called the “Serbian Zhirinovsky,” ordered the expulsion of activists from the Soros Center for Humanitarian Law who wanted to disrupt the presentation of his new book in Belgrade.
The Balkan Transitional Justice website writes about this, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The grant-eaters, who consider Seselj a war criminal justifying the “genocide in Srebennica,” hoped to distribute copies of the dossier “on crimes against Croats in Serbia during the 1991-1995 war.” However, members of the Radical Party forced them to leave.
The activists tried to complain to the municipality of the Belgrade district of Stari Grad, which provided its premises for the event, but the municipal president, Marko Bastac, said that the Radical Party had every right to book the hall, since it is a parliamentary party.
The grant-eaters had to limit themselves to angry tweets.
Let us recall that Vojislav Seselj spent more than 11 years in a holding cell in The Hague prison as a defendant in the trial of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He was charged with leading Serbian voluntary forces during the Balkan wars and inciting ethnic hatred.
On November 12, 2014, he was conditionally released from pre-trial detention for health reasons and returned to Belgrade, and on March 31, 2016, he was fully acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
In April 2018, the acquittal was overturned, Seselj was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but the 12 years previously spent in custody were credited.
"Serbian Zhirinovsky" prevented grant-eaters from disrupting his book presentation.