ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - Deputies representing national minorities in the Croatian parliament on Wednesday strongly condemned the statement by Jaksa Marasovic of the opposition Croatian People's Party (HNS) that people in Rogoznica
"believe that their houses would not have been demolished if they had been owned by Serbs or Roma."
ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - Deputies representing national minorities
in the Croatian parliament on Wednesday strongly condemned the statement by
Jaksa Marasovic of the opposition Croatian People's Party (HNS) that people in
Rogoznica "believe that their houses would not have been demolished if they had
been owned by Serbs or Roma." Minority members of Parliament Furio
Radin, Nikola Mak and Milorad Pupovac described the statement as hate speech
and an expression of intolerance towards the Serb and Roma minorities.
Marasovic made the statement during Question Time earlier on
Wednesday.
The minority MPs said that the Parliament should have interrupted the
session and distanced itself from the hate speech.
Marasovic's statement was also condemned by independent MP Slaven
Letica and Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Party.
Rogoznica is one of the places on the Adriatic coast where the Ministry
of Construction and Regional Planning has ordered demolition of illegally
built housing.