The Hungarian Embassy was painted with swastikas in Belgrade - the authorities blame the opposition
Unidentified people painted offensive graffiti at the Hungarian Embassy in Belgrade tonight. A swastika appeared on the sign of the diplomatic mission on Krunskaya Street, and below on the notice boards it was written: “March from my street” and “Fascists.”
This was reported by the Serbian publication Informer, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The police have launched an investigation, and the offensive inscriptions have already been removed.
It should be recalled that at a recent rally of the opposition Union for Serbia, one of the activists, actor Sergei Trifunovic, attacked the Hungarian community, proposing to evict its representatives from the country, for which President Aleksandar Vucic had to apologize to the Prime Minister of the neighboring country, Viktor Orban.
In his speech, the opposition leader said from the podium: “The population of Serbia is declining by 35 people a year, because Vucic scares away young people, and some Hungarians and Syrians come instead.”
The Hungarian community accused Trifunovic of insulting him, demanding a public apology.
Which he soon did, speaking on the “Impression of the Week” show on the NOVA TV channel. Then he said that it was a mistake because his “thoughts rush ahead of his speech.”
In an interview with Informer, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic commented on today's incident: “The scandalous graffiti at the Hungarian Embassy is a consequence of the policy of violence and hatred of the opposition.”
The head of the department especially emphasized that we are talking about the diplomatic mission of the country where a large number of Serbian citizens originate.
“The spread of hatred towards Hungarians, such as we recently had the opportunity to hear in the speeches of the leaders of the Union for Serbia, has clearly inspired some people in our country to hate other nations and led to the appearance of a type of graffiti that is unacceptable and unworthy of a country like Serbia. And this, among other things, is one of the consequences of their policy of violence and hatred, the only one they can offer and constantly use against women, journalists, other countries and all those who do not share their opinion,” Stefanovic said.
Let us recall that in Serbia, especially in the Vojvodina region, Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority, amounting to 300 thousand people or almost 4% of the total population.
The Hungarian Embassy in Belgrade was defaced with swastikas – authorities blame the opposition