Singer, fans perform pro-Nazi salute at Croatia concert
A very popular right -wing Croatian singer and hundreds of thousands of fans, criticizing a great concert in Zagreb, a pro -Nazi II. World War II made the greeting.
One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, stolen during the concert on Saturday, “Motherland – Ready!” Salute, who was running concentration camps at the time by the Nazi Ustasha regime of Croatia.
After a US-made machine gun, Perkovic, the stage named Thompson, said that both the song and the greetings were focused on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, where he fought using his American firearms after he declared independence from the old Yugoslavia.
He says that his controversial song is “witness of a period”.
The conflict of the 1990s exploded when the rebellious minority Serbs, supported by neighboring Serbia, took weapons when they aimed to leave Croatia and unite with Serbia.
Perkovic’s enormous popularity in Croatia reflects the dominant nationalist feelings in the country 30 years after the end of the war.
The Ustasha units of the Second World War in Croatia brutally killed tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Novels and Antifasist Croatian Croatian in a series of concentration camps in the country.
Despite the documented persecution, some nationalists still see the leaders of the Ustasha regime as the founders of the independent Croatian state.
The organizers said that half a million people participated in the concert of Perkovic in the Croatian capital.
Video images published by the Croatian media showed that many fans exhibited pro -Nazi greetings in the early hours of the day.
Croatian state television HRT said salute can be punished with laws in Croatia, but the courts decided that the courts could use it as a part of Perkovic’s song.
Perkovic was often banned from performing on pro -Nazi references and demonstrations in some European cities.
Croatia’s Vecernji list Daily wrote that the concert was left in the shadow of the concert by using the greetings of a regime signed in the “mass executions of people”.
Regional N1 television, regardless of the modern interpretations of salute, the roots of the Ustasha regime “undoubtedly” said.
The station said, “The Germans have made a clear cut” from anything about Nazi to prevent distorted comments and a dark background.
Populist President Aleksandar Vucic in neighboring Serbia criticized Perkovic’s concerts as “support for pro -Nazi values”.
Former Serbian Liberal Leading Boris Tadic said it was “a great shame for Croatia” and “European Union” because concert “glorifies the killing of members of a nation in the Serbian”.
Croatia joined the EU in 2013.
Croatian police said Perkovic’s concert was the country’s largest concert and an invisible security challenge and required thousands of civil servants to be deployed.
No big incident was reported.
