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01. 12. 08. - 09:00

SDP official arrest for Facebook photo of PM in Nazi attire

Croatian Times

Niksa Klecak, 22, the head of the Dubrovnik branch of the SDP’s youth organisation, was arrested on Saturday because of a Facebook photo showing Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader dressed as a Nazi.

Police searched Klecak’s flat and computers and interrogated him for three hours at a police station.

Klecak admitted having started the Facebook group  'I'll bet I will find 5,000 people on Facebook who do not like Sanader" but denied having put Sanader on the web in a Nazi uniform, something that anyone could have done.

Klecak denied all charges, claiming that they were the result of a political conspiracy led by the HDZ.

The media have reported that Klecak has been involved in pornography cases and attacks on police officers.

The Dubrovnik-Neretva police said that Klecak was already well-known to them but confirmed he had had nothing to do with the "Nazi" photo of Sanader.

The SDP leadership is demanding that police apologize for searching a party member's flat.

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