At first, the protesters quarrelled with each other, a few blows fell, and then the police arrested a woman. “That was the reason for the riots,” claims Anis Ličina. The protester spoke specifically for Tednik, they praised themselves on national television, he was there, and the police later detained him. However, they did not mention that the “protester” was in fact an old acquaintance of the police with a criminal past. As well, they kept silent the fact that he escaped from the police during his detention, and posted everything on the social network, as advice and encouragement to everyone, for further action. The show also did not mention that Ličina had announced violence before Thursday’s protests on November 5th, that he had insulted police officers in the past and sent them back to their villages. In addition, they violated medical measures, as Ličina did not wear a protective mask in front of the camera in a public place.
Police grabbed a woman and threw her on the ground, in which her husband interfered, resulting the police jumping on him as well, explained the criminal and prominent actor in the violent protests, Anis Ličina. Apparently, also an advisor to the national media house RTV Slovenia. “There was already an angry crowd there,” he said, adding that the measures “have been going on for so long that people are already desperate.” A minor slip, he probably meant to say they were desperate, but he inadvertently said it more honestly. “I think it was only a matter of time before something like that happened. You cannot lock people up, you cannot tell them they have to be home, but you can ask them. /… / The government’s attitude towards its people is very wrong, the speakers are wrong, you cannot force someone into something they do not want. It is easier to come up with something if you ask nicely, but it has to happen at the beginning, you cannot wait for people to overdo it,” Ličina advised the government.
“Then the explosions erupted and chaos ensued, in a few minutes the police emptied the square, so they pushed us out of the square,” the announcer’s voice said in a report on the Tednik show. And hinted that they, too, had been grossly expelled. “After the water cannon, Aleš Hojs also visited the venue and shifted the blame to the media,” the reporter continued, somehow equating the Minister of the Interior with the water cannon. The show went on to say that a photojournalist Borut Živulovič was harmed, who was continued to be kicked by a violent protester while unconscious. The protester secured him an emergency visit with a broken jaw. Some other journalist colleagues also received some blows, they mentioned, and the expert for beatings – Ličina, was asked why. “I suggest, if you were a journalist, that you just have a vest, anything marked with RTV, and you can quickly avoid it,” Ličina advised reporters. What to avoid, was cut off in the video, but there was probably talk of a broken jaw and other beatings.
Let us recall that Anis Ličina has been known to the Slovenian police for some time, one of his first exploits was the robbery of a gas stop, during which he also beat an employee at the pump. Later, the police got him in the role of a smuggler of illegal migrants, and as we have already written, in his criminal career he even progressed to a member of the Slovenian drug cartel. What else he does in freedom is not entirely clear, but it is even less clear why national television devotes its media space to such a person, asks him for advice and also keeps quiet about who Ličina really is. He was described only as a protester. They did not even mention that he had already caused riots in previous protests and insulted the police officers who detained him. Well, we have to say one more thing about Ličina, we already reported in the spring that he wished death to the SDS candidate for MEP Davorin Kopšet via Facebook. “Old SDS pig, I hope the virus picks you up, you piece of shit, so you won’t vote from the grave anymore, manure,” Ličina wrote at the time.
Words are redundant here. If Minister Hojs “shifted” the blame to the media at Thursday’s violent protests, saying that they had been encouraging or reporting that protests were desirable for nine months, he will be able to say next time, when something worse may happen, that the central media supports criminals and their criminal acts, including brutal violence. After all, as far as fights are concerned, they offered useful advice from an expert that journalists should wear vests with markings on the next riots. And you washed your hands of that. Whether this only applies to RTV journalists has not been made public. Last Thursday, it was quite clear from the equipment who belongs to the journalistic ranks, and it was they who collected it the most. Maybe this is a special alliance or anti-government pact between Ličina and RTV? Or RTV journalists are just so stupid that they are not even well aware of their own criminal cooperation.