Karamarko against blogger
Minister Sues Bloggers for Slander
Lawyer Veljko Miljevic said that the suit was filed for the continued and long term spreading of false and disturbing contents.ZAGREB, CROATIA – The Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs Tomislav Karamarko sued a free journalist Zeljko Peratovic for slander. Karamarko announced filing suits against two bloggers, and the first Peratovic received his via post this morning.
“I do not know the contents of the suit, but I saw that the County State Attorney’s Office rejected the private suit by the chief of SOA (Security Intelligence Agency), and after he made an addition to it, the county infringement court brought a decision that the case be taken up by the judge of the County Court in Zagreb. It is possible that he sue me for the article by the journalist Malic, which was announced recently in Jutarnji List, in which they mention Marin Tomulic and Ivan Jurasinovic on my blog, but I do not know exactly. Karamarko is still placing pressure on people close to me, holds them under investigation and suggests that they should not talk with me. Because of similar things I am preparing to file a report against Karamarko, Mladen Bajic and USKOK (Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime), for the obstruction of some murder investigations, and against Zagreb’s police for illegal searches” said the journalist Peratovic. He added that, even though he often writes about Tomislav Karamarko, he does not have anything against him personally, and he only saw him twice in his life.
Long term and continued slander
As we find out, Karamarko will for the same reasons sue the journalist Domagoj Margetic.
Both bloggers have previously had problems with the police and secret services. Peratovic was even taken in for giving away state secrets, whilst Margetic ended up in the Hague for not respecting the ICTY, more precisely, for revealing the identity of the protected witnesses in the Blaskic case.
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