A criminal complaint has been filed in Slovenia against the key persons who are leading the state’s current coronavirus policy. Amongst the accused are the highest political figures, the Prime Minister Janez Janša, the President Borut Pahor and the Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs. Pahor is charged with the omission of a criminal complaint, and the others are charged with crimes against humanity and are facing at least 15 years in prison. The Slovenian mainstream media have completely overlooked, if not deliberately ignored, this news.

The criminal complaint against these individuals came from civil lines after fierce public criticism of the implemented measures and after the state failed to address that criticism openly and democratically and lawyers failed to act in time or even to act. Anica Bidar filed a well-founded suspicion of criminal activity (it’s fair to mention that some lawyers wrote it). As stated, Janša and Hojs, alongside several others—Milan Krek, the official representative of the NIJZ (The National Institute for Public Health), Tomaž Gantar (Minister for Health), Jelko Kacin (the official government spokesman for covid-19) and Bojana Beovič (the head of the advisory board of the Ministry for Health)—are charged with crimes against humanity. The complaint states that since the beginning of April 2020, all of the government’s coronavirus decrees have gradually violated the Constitution and fundamental human rights and liberties.

The Rule Of Statistics

Since the real or manufactured statistics numbers went up and did not come down, there has been almost total lockdown in Slovenia: stores are closed for ‘non-essential’ sales, public transportation has virtuallycome to a standstill, and schools are closed. It seems like that the more restrictions the government imposes, “the more stubborn the statistics become.” Although according to prior lockdown logic, the numbers should go down, that is not the case: the government is directly or indirectly pointing the finger at the people who, by their reasoning, weren't ‘obedient enough'. After two weeks of autumn holidays (they were extended by one week), pupils arenow in the middle of the third week of remote schooling. Still, the statistics is not in favour of the people or their freedom, so the government has announced that after the schools re-open they will probably demand mandatory mask-wearing for all pupils, students and even toddlers in nursery schools..

A Global Attention Appreciated

Critics of the state’s coronavirus politics challenge some of the official directives such as mandatory wearing of masks, even outdoors, the prohibition on leaving the municipality of residenceand the policy being implemented in schools, especially in elementary schools. Today, the Government will probably accept the so-called the sixth coronavirus package, in which it will with article 59. criminalise the act of publicly encouraging people to disobey the rules or to openly invite people to protest during the period of the officially declared epidemic. Furthermore, there were some clues that even the act of doubt could be interpreted in the aforementioned sense. If so, could, for example, citing the ongoing corona-connected criminal charges abroad be construed as a doubt that is equal to publicly inviting people to the protests? (One should just come and take a look at the real side of the marvellous and extraordinary Rule of Law in Slovenia, woohoo.) Or to put it politely, the reality of the judical system in Slovenia is not exactly encouraging; therefore, global attention on every legal corona-connected process would prove beneficial to the Slovenian people.

UPDATE: 29.11.2020 The dubious article 59. was not accepted in that aforementioned context. In the legalised version of the sixth coronavirus package, it was preformulated into article 54. that criminalises the organisation of the public gathering in a time of an epidemic.

UPDATE: 15. 12. 2020 A public announcement: the criminal complaint was also sent to the court in Hague.

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