By: Spletni časopis
After the police denied ever informing Prime Minister Robert Golob about their findings regarding who was allegedly spreading false information about migrant assaults on social media, something Golob himself publicly boasted about, the police have now revealed yet another untruth from Golob.
When answering MPs in parliament for the last time in this term, Golob responded to Žan Mahnič (SDS), who asked about the sharply increased number of migrants entering the country under this government, as follows:
“It is true that in the first year after the end of the pandemic, the number of migrants rose sharply. True. Did we hide this? We did not. Did we start working on it? We did. We even reintroduced border controls: on the Schengen border to the east and to the south, because we were forced to do so. But today we have results. In 2025, the inflow of illegal migrants into Slovenia dropped radically. In 2026, the inflow is minimal. And this is the result of this government’s work.”
The police report on migrants for January of this year completely contradicts Golob’s claim of a “minimal inflow”. The police write: “From 1 January 2026 to 31 January 2026, 1,721 illegal entries into the country were recorded. In the same period last year, 1,169 were recorded.’
The inflow in 2026 is therefore not minimal. It has increased dramatically, by 47.2 percent, compared to the same month last year. January is usually a month with lower migration intensity due to winter. The data on the number of migrants in January in recent years is as follows:
The number of expressed intentions to apply for international protection has also risen sharply. In January 2026, there were 1,523 such intentions, significantly more than in January 2025, when there were 991. Already the expression of intent allows a migrant to be transported by the police, at taxpayers’ expense, to the centre of the country (instead of being returned to Croatia), after which they can freely continue their journey toward Italy or Austria, while almost none actually file an asylum application.
Golob has for some time been announcing a fight against fake news together with the Levica party’s Asta Vrečko and with party-affiliated institutes such as the 8 March Institute led by Nika Kovač, founded by Simon Maljevac, or the Citizen D Institute run by Domen Savič, who is employed by Asta Vrečko on a trust basis.
They could all start with themselves.
When it comes to rapes, the rumours circulating on social networks and in public are also a consequence of the systematic concealment of such incidents from the public in recent years. When state authorities hide information from the public, rumours spread. I first exposed this systematic concealment in the case of the Moroccan Ali Safini, who, after being released from prison, where he had served time for violent robberies of several women, raped two students he encountered at Metelkova and beat another woman. The police concealed all these events from the media and the public. Deliberately. When the incident became known despite the police, because people at Metelkova witnessed one of the rapes and called the police so they could intervene, the event was then concealed even at the Ljubljana court, which claimed it was a private matter of the court, led by Marjan Pogačnik, and that the public had no right to know anything. Even the Information Commissioner sided with them, arguing that the court could not determine whom the police had brought in for the rape of several girls or what previous conviction had put this rapist in prison. Their concealment failed because outraged judges informed me that the suspect was Safini, who had just been released from prison, where he had been sentenced a little over a year earlier by a panel led by Judge Mojca Kocijančič, the former wife of former minister Aleš Zalar (LDS).
If the judges could determine this, then it was relatively easy for the court leadership to determine whom the police had brought in again on suspicion of raping two students, someone the same court had already convicted. And Kocijančič’s ruling was not even the first against Safini.
There were many similar cases of rape and sexual violence later on, including cases involving groups of migrants. Because the police systematically conceal them from the public, rumours spread among people. Only once the rumours spread widely do the police respond to journalists’ questions and confirm or deny the events, after having previously hidden them. The police also conceal from the public who decided, and why, that such information must be withheld.
The movement of migrant numbers across all months in recent years, showing a dramatic rise in the number of migrants during the rule of the coalition of Svoboda, SD, and the Levica, which at the start of its term declared a policy of open borders and dismantling fences, is as follows:
The data on the movement of the number of registered migrants after illegal entry into the country over an even longer period is as follows:
When it comes to rapes, whether committed by locals or migrants, the police have publicly announced that they will continue systematically concealing these events from the public.
