Dear journalist colleagues and my followers!
I would like to inform you that the court found me not
guilty for defamation of the former Slovenian communist secret police Udba head
Janez Zemljarič. The Ljubljana district court at the end of the trial on 1
February acquitted me in a private criminal complaint which was filed against
me by Mr Zemljarič. On 12 September, his appeal was turned down by the
Ljubljana court of appeal. The latter confirmed my exemption judgment taken by
the Ljubljana district court. Both of the courts decided that I as a journalist
had a justified reason to believe the documents of the former secret police
found by a researcher Roman Leljak in the State Archive are authentic.
In January 2014 I wrote for the Reporter weekly
magazine some articles about the Udba crimes in Austria and Germany in the 1970s.
I wrote about murders of Croatian emigrants committed by the killer agents of
the Yugoslav secret police Udba. Janez Zemljarič was at the helm of its
Slovenian branch in 1975 when Nikica Martinović was murdered in his greengrocer
in Klagenfurt. Mr Zemljarič claims he has nothing to do with the murders of
Croatian emigrants. He denied that the Slovenian Udba murdered Martinović as
well as any other Croatian emigrant. He felt dishonoured because of the
published articles, so he filed a criminal complaint against me and my
photographer for defamation. Just before the trial started he withdrew a
complaint against the photographer but he insisted on prosecuting me.
Mr Zemljarič had also prosecuted Mr Leljak but he had lost
that case too. Now I'm still waiting for the trail on behalf of Silvo Gorenc,
the former head of the Yugoslav Udba, for the same articles. Finally, I would
like to thank my solicitor Radovan Cerjak for an excellent defence. It was my
privilege to be represented by a solicitor who achieved a ban of Tito's street
in Ljubljana by the Slovenian Constitutional court.
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