The croatian journalist Zeljko Peratovic investigates on war and organized crimes in Southeast Europe

January 11th, 2008

Le président de certains citoyens

Peratović, Mesić i Manolić - Vila Weiss
Peratović, Mesić & Manolić, Vila Weiss, Zagreb, 1993.

Quelque part, la Croatie, Novi list, Rijeka, 29.10.2007
Ecrit par Boris Pavelić

Le président de certains citoyens

Le discours inaugural de Mesić en 2000 contenait une force de liberté, mais aujourd’hui le président justifie la répression contre les journalistes. Il s’agit d’une régression qu’il faut regretter.

Je serai le président de tous les citoyens de ce pays. De même je serai citoyen président. C’est ce qu’avait promis Stipe Mesić dans son discours d’investiture en débutant son premier mandat. Toutes proportions gardées, ces mots contenaient la force de liberté de l’introduction historique de la Déclaration américaine d’indépendance. « Nous considérons ces vérités comme évidentes : que tous les hommes sont nés égaux… ». La rupture de la toile d’araignée des services secrets et des influences politiques sur les medias et les libertés des journalistes était peut être la partie essentielle des changements sociaux à venir depuis la « démocrature » de Tuđman envers la communauté de l’Etat de droit, que personnifiait l’élection de Mesić comme président. Et là encore Mesić s’est comporté comme un brise-glace politique. Mais voilà, huit années après, Stjepan Mesić justifie sur un ton sarcastique la répression contre les journalistes car il n’est plus limité par aucune échéance électorale alors même que son règne de président devrait atteindre des sommets sidéraux, voire des moments haveliens. Il s’agit d’une régression qu’il faut regretter. Ce sont des erreurs par lesquelles les hommes de mérite se compromettent devant l’Histoire.

« Si la loi est enfreinte, cela sera établi. Car la police peut auditionner quiconque, et même moi – quand mon mandat sera terminé » a dit aux journalistes, il y a une semaine, le président Mesić dans une déclaration passée inaperçue concernant l’arrestation de journaliste Željko Peratović. « Je ne vais pas démentir tous ceux qui m’attaquent tous les jours a l’instar de Dujmović, Ivkošić, Margetić ou autres. Celui-là appartient sans doute à cette liste ; il y a juste que je ne sais rien de lui. Et s’il jouit du fait que je ne l’aime pas, qu’il en profite » a ajouté Mesić dans une déclaration contradictoire et partiellement mensongère, dont l’analyse montrerait soit que le président ne comprend pas, soit qu’il néglige délibérément le principe d’égalité des citoyens devant la loi, tout dépendant du point de savoir si telle ou telle personne lui plaît.

La honte du système répressif

Mais il vaut procéder par ordre. Tout le monde sait aujourd’hui que l’arrestation du journaliste indépendant Željko Peratović s’est transformée en une énorme honte du système répressif. Le paradoxe d’humour noir réside dans le fait que ce système confus et rougi ait lui-même reconnu sa propre honte. Peratović, nous le savons, a été arrêté pour avoir, il y a deux ans, publié sur son blog trois documents connus et déjà publiés. C’est un scandale à cause duquel, dans les Etats qui tiennent aux libertés d’expression, les démissions sauteraient comme des étincelles. Mais pas chez nous : même si le premier ministre a personnellement annoncé le châtiment des responsables ; même si la police a d’abord arrêté Peratović pour ensuite accuser le procureur et les services secrets déclarant qu’elle n’a plus l’intention de s’occuper d’affaires semblables ; même si le procureur, en couvrant de cendre son premier homme, frémissait publiquement de l’attitude de la police, essayant de laver ses propres pêchés, – il n’est rien arrivé à personne. De plus – et c’est là le sommet - le président de l’Etat lui-même, l’homme qui aime d’ordinaire à se présenter comme défenseur de la liberté de la presse, a parfumé tous ces excréments des anciennes écuries d’Augias jamais nettoyés du labyrinthe de l’espionnage croate.

Peratović , Pavelić, Osijek, 1997.

Peratović i Pavelić u Osijeku kod Glavaša

Le message de l’homme au dessus des lois

Et parfumé à quel point ! « Si la loi est enfreinte, cela sera établi. Car la police peut auditionner quiconque » a dit Mesić. Mais arrêtez ! Même un journaliste qui a repris une information publiée depuis longtemps ? S’il en va ainsi, le président devrait dire quelle est cette frontière qui sépare la police démocratique de la répression arbitraire ? Si c’est ainsi, pourquoi était-il injustifié que Mesić soit incarcéré pour avoir fondé des entreprises à Orahovica et avoir introduit le capitalisme pourri dans l’idylle de la justice socialiste ? Il avait en effet violé les lois d’alors, la police l’a auditionné - car « elle peut auditionner quiconque - et il s’est bien trouvé arrêté. Il a violé la loi, mon cher, et pourquoi se révolte-t-il maintenant?! Le Président nous a rappelé où s’arrêtait les pouvoirs d’interrogatoire de la police : « mais moi aussi quand mon mandat sera terminé ». Il y a, dans cette affirmation, de quoi vous glasser le sang. « à la différence de vous, je suis intouchable » a dit Mesić à la nation. Hormis le fait que cette affirmation soit fausse – car le président de la République n’a pas d’immunité de poursuites pénales s’il commet un crime, elle est non-démocratique, napoléonienne, et insultante pour les citoyens sensibles démocratiquement. Et en ce qui concerne Peratović, il est le premier journaliste que le président de la République ait laché dans les griffes de l’arbitraire et d’une répression imprévisible des stupides Clouzots croates. Il l’a fait, de surcroît, avec plaisir, démontrant qu’il n’était pas « le président de tous « mais de certains seulement des citoyens de ce pays.

January 3rd, 2008

My name is 45, 45 Lines!

(Letter to EU Commission sent on 05. 11. 2007.)


Dears,

My name is Peratovic, Zeljko Peratovic ;) And, I am croatian journalist and bloger who was detained on suspicion of disclosing state secrets on my internet blog, in a move demanded by both the head of the secret service and the office of the public prosecutor.


Let me you that I report my side of story!

For a long time the problems I’ve been having I’m connecting with President Stjepan Mesic, chief of SOA Tomislav Karamarko and Main state attorney, Mladen Bajic.

I criticized President Mesic in 2003 that he was helping Ante Gotovina and Hrvoje Petrac and because of that I was under attack of his spies Zeljko Bagic and Franjo Turek, about what also CPJ was informing.

The same year I got familiar with the case of retired lawyer Ana Jendris-Jelisic who gave me an interview after visiting President Mesic, in which she accused President of Croatia that he was protecting his friends Zarko Pavlina and Marijan Ceraj, and who put her in mental institution, and then in custody so that they could rob her. The interview I made for Vjesnik, but the editorial office didn’t publish it, without explanation. (Dowload pdfs of this cases from TOMULIC-Lettre fax à délégation de la Commission UE-décembre 2006.pdf , JENDRIS-JELESIC-Lettre fax au CRIF-décembre 2006.pdf-2.pdf - french only), and video from 45 lines - croatian only)

When in 2004 President Stjepan Mesic used a case of Helena Puljiz to depose at that time chief of POA, Josko Podbevsek, who by the order of Prime Minister Sanader was researching Mesic’s connection with Hrvoje Petrac (mobbster convicted for kidnapping of Vladimir Zagorac’s child) and enforced Prime Minister Sanader to put on the head of POA Tomislav Karamarko. Even when such possibility was in discussion I published a text in Vjesnik, partly censored, in which I said that Karamarko wouldn’t get personnal resolution for chief of spies. Karamarko immediatelly intervened at that time chief editor of Vjesnik to limit my writing which she told me herself.

Tomislav Karamarko was in 2000, by my knowledge, while he was a chief of UNS, obstructed the police to call on an informational conversation Milan Mrla, a man for whom I personaly doubt that he betrayed Milan Levar, that is, to orderers of Levar’s murder he told the exact place and time the most suitable to kill Levar. (croatian and german)

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About Karamarko’s role in obstruction of the investigation of Levar’s murder I informed by e-mail Main state attorney Mladen Bajic and his deputy Dragan Novosel, and that information I released also on my blog.

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Vesna Levar, widow of deceased Milan, asked from all authorised institutions in the country, even in President’s Office, to Dragan Novosel be punished because of obstruction of the investigation of her husband’s murder, but all institutions were satisfied with the statement of Novosel’s chief Mladen Bajic that DORH doesn’t obstruct the investigation and that they didn’t revealed any details, even not the identity of the witness in the investigation.

With all these details of obstruction of the investigation I informed Amnesty International in London which is in charge of Balkans.

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So far nobody offered a protection or support releated to that.

When a part of testimony of Fatima Skula (in which she talks about the role of recent vice president of Parliament and a member of presidency of HDZ, Darko Milinovic) appeared on the Internet a part of, I also commented on my blog. It is well known that I am the most instructed journalist in war crimes in Lika, and Karamarko, Bajic, Mesic and Sanader knew that I had Skula’s entire testimonies and gave the copies to State attorney’s office in Gospic, and immediately started a chase on me that I was the author of deeds on YouTube.
So the crew of HTV’s show Brisani prostor (director Goran Milic, former director of Yutel and during socialism reporter of Yugoslav radio television from the USA) started to look after those cassettes. I was called by Milic’s journalist, Srebrenka Mijatovic-Herold and told me that the autor of the recordings Marko Erceg said that I got the tapes and that I should give them to Brisani prostor show. I answered that I didn’t have the tapes, but I made a copy from Erceg and gave him back the original and that I know for certain that copies were in DORH in Gospic. Then the journalist concluded that I gave the records to State attorney’s office and she was going to say that in the show.
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She called me the next day and said that she talked to the director Goran Milic and that he offered a fee if I give a statement for his show about authenticity of Skula’s statements considering that I had an interview with her in 1999 for Globus. I accepted that. Nevertheless, the journalist didn’t call me any more, and from Marko Erceg and Dragutin Franciskovic, persons who participated in recording of Skula’s testimony, I found out that the journalist of HTV told them that I was the author of the video on Internet and surely those cassettes I was selling around for money, that she doesn’t disapprove war crimes over Serbs in Lika, and she knows the Tihomir Oreskovic’s family . Marko Erceg told me that the journalist visited him and he gave her to copy his originals. That’s why I expected to be attacked in Brisani prostor show as a collaborator of foreign secret services who distributes false statements about war crimes.


However, when the police crashed into my apartment and showed me the Letter for search, they didn’t mention those cassettes, although they picked them up in the end and didn’t give it back to me yet. They said they are interested in documents of secret services with State secret sign on it (see
police_report_peratovic18.pdf)

During the very search and interrogation it was visible that two policemen out of eight, all from department for organised crime and terrorism who participated in treatment over me, were in constant conntact from somebody in SOA or State attorney’s office, so even after three hours they found all three documents they were formally interested in, and even the rest of the policemen wanted all the time to end the search, those two were getting over a phone instructions to continue.

They took also all my documentations about war crimes in Lora, Miljevci, Gospic, Medak Pocket, political murders during Tudjman’s time , but also during the comunism (Perkovic’s modus operandi).


On most of those documents there were no signs of any secrecy. (police_report_peratovic18.pdf)

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I got the information earlier that agents of SOA were at Josip Boljkovac’s, former Yugoslav secret policeman and first Croatian Minister of police and asked how one anonymous letter in which was mentioned his name got on my blog. Later the policemen in crime processing asked me if I knew Boljkovac and Dragutin Franciskovic, a person with whom I was at Boljkovac’s this summer. Considering that some investigations are going on about comunist after war crimes, where Boljkovac’s name is mentioned, Boljkovac is probably terified and he thinks President Mesic will protect him form possible penal procedure, so to agents of SOA, by my information, he talked against me and Dragutin Franciskovic, that is most likely that Franciskovic gave me that anonymous letter (see in PDF list of confiscated things – Case SOA Vice Vukojevic and on blog under link)

Two years ago I visited Boljkovac together with deceased Vjenceslav Bill. After Bill suddenlly stopped his friendship with me, I heard that he was slandering me to different peolpe that I was recording Boljkovac in secrecy, that I took from Marko Erceg cassettes with Fatima Skula’s testimony and that I wouldn’t give it back to him etc. I concluded that Bill was with something blackmailed by Tomislav Karamarko