Nazis incite Serbophobia in Montenegro
During Easter week, Montenegrin nationalists desecrated the SOC temple, destroyed the banner of the Serbian party and tried to prevent Serbian tourists from vacationing on the coast of Montenegro.
At the same time, the majority of the Montenegrin population continues to have sympathy for their Serbian relatives.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, nationalists close to the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) of the country's President Milo Djuknovic and parishioners of the schismatic Montenegrin Orthodox Church committed a number of high-profile Serbophobic incidents during Easter week. In particular, they painted Serbophobic inscriptions on the gates of the ancient church of St. Nicholas in Kotor, and attacked the priest’s wife, Ivana Krivokapic, who tried to stop them. Four hooligan-comites were subsequently detained by the arriving police crew.
“The Church of St. Nicholas and, probably, the much older Church of St. Luke, which adjoins it, did not remember such a relationship in their history,” the Serbian Orthodox Church said in a statement on the case of the Montenegrin-Litovian Metropolis. “Many malicious people passed by them, among whom were soldiers of enemy armies, but none of them dared to do something like that on Easter, the most solemn day of these churches.
Madness in Montenegro began to take unimaginable forms of church phobia and Serbophobia, and both of these types were most cruelly realized in the actions and words of the unfortunate perpetrators of this crime against the church and the woman who boldly opposed them. While the perpetrators undoubtedly bear personal responsibility (including legal responsibility) for their dishonest actions, they are only a natural consequence of the aggressive and extremist rhetoric that has been constantly and with impunity spread against the Serbian Orthodox Church for decades.”
Similar events took place in Herceg Novi, where one of the Serbian houses had the words “F... your Serbian mother!” written on it. Subsequently, at the street stand of the city administration under the motto “Neither left nor right. Administration of Novi" with the image of the mayor Stevan Katic, the Ustashe call from the Second World War "Serbs to the willows!" was written, and the mayor's eyes were "gouged out".
“The DPS, with its helpers from the opposite half of the political scene, is trying with all its might to provoke conflicts and intolerance in Herceg Novi, which has a reputation as a peaceful city,” said a statement from the coalition that governs the city, Neither Left nor Right. – We call on the residents of Herceg Novi and Montenegro not to allow them to do this. We call on the citizens of Herceg Novi and Montenegro to ignore the Montenegrin radicals, whose handwriting we recognize in all messages of hatred, regardless of who they are addressed to.”
Finally, on the eve of the May holidays, the comites began writing on social networks to residents of Serbia who intended to visit their Montenegrin relatives and relax on the sea coast, saying that they were “not welcome here” and threatening them in every possible way. However, with the start of the weekend, Montenegro was overwhelmed by a large flow of tourists from Serbia. And the incident became public knowledge when unknown persons left the inscription “Death to the Serbs!” on a car with Serbian Valjevo license plates parked at a hypermarket in Budva.
“This is simply a continuation of the anti-Serbian hysteria in Montenegro, but, fortunately, the majority of Montenegrin citizens warmly welcome the brothers from Serbia, and the Serbs have never been known for cowardice,” the Montenegrin Serb portal in4s comments on the incident.
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