23 January 2008
The Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia has said it had received a written message threatening Serbs and Jews living in the country with “extermination”. The message was signed by supporters of ‘Hajduk Split’, one of the leading Croatian soccer clubs. "We received in the premises of our Church in Split a letter with neo-Nazi content threatening in a brutal manner Serbs and Jews in Croatia,” the Orthodox Church said a in press release. It also published the letter on its website,
"Ask yourself if these are your last days. We are going to exterminate you all,” the letter reads. It also contains slogans used during World War II such as "Let us hang the Serbians very high" and "Jewry outside.” Church leaders informed police and an inquiry is under way to identify the authors of the threat. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats died in concentration camps set up by the Croatian pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during World War II.
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