In Croatia, eggs were thrown at a Catholic parish with the flag of a neo-Ustashe punitive battalion
On the island of Dugi Otok, in the village of Sali, the local priest of the Catholic Zadar Archdiocese Tomislav Vlahovic, along with the flag of Croatia, hung the banner of the neo-Ustashe punitive national battalions HOS, which massacred the Serbs in the 90s.
This was reported by Zadarski, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Vlahovic hung over one of the buildings of the parish that he heads, along with the flag of Croatia and the banner of the national battalions of the neo-Ustasha Blackshirts from the so-called Croatian Defense Forces (HOS).
This black flag is provocative in that it depicts the traditional Croatian “shahovnitsa” (a red and white checkered field), but not of modern Croatia, but of the period of the Ustashe Independent Croatian Power during the Second World War (differing in the order of alternating red and white cells). The neo-Ustashe motto Za Dom Spremni (Ready for the Fatherland!) is also posted.
Tellingly, the banner of the Blackshirts, who were particularly brutal during the war of the 90s, caused outrage among some residents of Sali, who pelted the parish building with eggs. When local journalists asked Vlahovic to explain whether there was a place for a neo-Ustashe banner on a church building, he called them “partisans who lie and distort the facts.”
At the same time, he explained that he hung out the banner of the national battalions in honor of the anniversary of the punitive operation "Lightning" (Bljesak), during which from May 1 to May 3, Croatian militants took away and ethnically cleansed its part of Western Slavonia from the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina.
In general, the Catholic priest Tomislav Vlahovic has a trail of scandals.
Thus, he was appointed to head the island parish after, as a police chaplain of the Zadar Archdiocese, he stopped the residents of Benkovac, posing as an employee of the Sibenik-Knin police department. And on the recent Catholic Easter, he called on believers not to comply with quarantine measures introduced due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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