Corrupt cronies float pedophilia rumors about Mr. Krupa

Well, if this case wasn't weird enough for you, it just got weirder.

In the last two days many efforts have been made to get the diplomatic community to help the Krupas. Someone promised to try to help but then later got back to us and said he couldn't help. One of the reasons for this was that he had learned that the Krupas were "untouchables" because, paraphrasing, "It's all over the internet that Mr. Krupa is a pedophile."

What this person is referring to is a webpage, written in the Croatian language, that states, as if it were fact, that Alfred Krupa is a "convicted pedophile" who was removed from his teaching position for molesting students. It also states that he is 47 years old, that he has three children, and that he married one of his former students.

In fact, Mr. Krupa has never been convicted or even charged with any inappropriate sexual behavior towards anyone. He is only 38 years old, only has two children, and has only been married once, since 1992, to someone who was never his student. The smear piece was intentionally placed on the internet, and the rumors circulated, by two individuals known to Mr. Krupa. In fact, Mr. Krupa successfully sued because of this slander and won a settlement. He also got one of the perpetrators, the former principle of his school, removed from office because of this. Mr. Krupa is still teaching two of the young ladies whose names were dragged into this mess. Neither girl ever actually made any such accusations against their art teacher. The whole thing is completely made up out of whole cloth.

All of this is, as you might expect, tied in to the campaign of persecution that has been waged against the Krupas by certain people in positions of power. Of course, none of this has anything to do with the fraudulent debt that was levied against the Krupas, the attempts to steal their home, or the plans to violently arrest them and throw all twelve of these innocent men, women and children out in the streets. It only serves to illustrate the kind of evil we are dealing with here. They are getting desperate because their corrupt criminal activities are being exposed internationally. They have to do whatever they can to try to degrade the public image of the Krupas and prevent the public from empathizing with their plight.

(Above: The "untouchable" Krupa kids, soon to be homeless, with bulldog Spike, whom the courts have ordered to be killed for no reason whatsoever.)

Stop the Illegal Eviction of the Krupa Family

“It’s a Kafka type situation,” says Alfred Krupa Jr., describing the bizarre set of circumstances that has led to the possibility of eviction and homelessness that faces his family in less than a week, on February 23, 2010.

As Mr. Krupa describes it, after decades of owning outright their family home in Karlovac, Croatia, and passing it from generation to generation, a debt was invented out of nowhere by a bank, and a lien placed against the property by the local Chamber of Commerce. Then, as the Krupas attempted to rectify the matter in court, their home was sold to a third party in Zagreb without their permission. Now the Chamber of Commerce is hastily rushing to throw them out into the streets in the middle of winter.

At every stage of the game since 2003, when this whole nightmare started for the Krupa family, they have faced a wall of resistance from the justice system in Karlovac. Always forced to deal with the same two judges, one at the Municipal Court and one at the Constitutional Court of Appeals, the Krupas have not been permitted to view the evidence against them or to present evidence in their own defense. They have not even been given an exact amount for the original debt that has been charged to them erroneously by Zagreb Bank.

But this is not a mere bureaucratic mix-up. This has been done deliberately, and this is personal. The actors at play here -- Zlatko Kuzman, President of the Karlovac Chamber of Commerce, Nadan Vidosevic of the national Croatian Chamber of Commerce, and Tomislav Maras, Presiding Judge for the Karlovac Municipal Court -- are actively plotting to steal the Krupas’ property, and to deny them due process of law. The Chamber of Commerce even provided the purchaser of the Krupa property the money to buy the house, and sold it to her for a pittance. The buyer appears to have been merely a puppet acting to facilitate this theft.

The motivation for this theft is pure greed. However, anti-Semitism is believed to be a factor here as well. For while the Krupas are baptized Catholics, there is still a great deal resentment among certain elements of Croatian society towards people of Jewish racial extraction, especially those who own businesses and property.

Alfred’s grandfather, Alfred Krupa the First, was a Polish Jew, captured as a prisoner of Croatian partisans after escaping a Nazi death camp in WWII. He was then recruited into the Croatian army, which he loyally served, even assisting in the rescue of Winston Churchill’s son. In 1943, he moved to Karlovac and married a Croatian girl. Because of his heroism during the war, Krupa was awarded apartments at the historic Karlovac Palace, where he raised a family and became known as one of the greatest water color artists in all of Yugoslavia (a tradition continued by Alfred Jr.) His son Mladen and grandson Alfred Jr. also served the Croatian army loyally during the Balkan conflict in the 1990s. The family started an automobile dealership out of the garage that grew into a company which was at one time worth over 3 million euros.

Unfortunately, the Croatian Republic has not served the Krupa family as loyally as they have served it. Corruption runs rife in that country, and now a cadre of corrupt judges, bankers, and bureaucrats have colluded to steal the Krupa family home. The Croatian Helsinki Commission on Human Rights has investigated the matter and has written to the Croatian President’s office (during the previous administration) informing him that the Krupas’ civil rights are being violated. The letter recommended that the case be reviewed for signs of influence from corrupt government officials, and the eviction halted during this review. But the President did not respond to the letter, and nothing was done.

All of this is to be expected, perhaps, in a country as notoriously corrupt as Croatia. As journalist Goran Flauder recently quipped to the BBC, “We like to say that where Italy is a state with a mafia, Croatia is a mafia with a state.” This same BBC article by Matt Prodger notes that Croatia is trying to clean up its image on this particular index because of its desire to join the European Union, having joined NATO in April 2009. But cleaning up the image and cleaning up the reality of the situation are quite different matters, for, as Prodger writes, “The Index of Economic Freedom recently ranked Croatia below several African states in one of its corruption measurements.”

So perhaps this is why, despite gaining a small amount of local media coverage in Karlovac, the Krupa saga has not made any headlines in national newspapers in Croatia. In fact, one journalist who did dare to publish a story about the Krupas was personally threatened by the President of the Karlovac Chamber of Commerce, who insinuated that the young man’s career would not progress if he continued to cover this story.

Some of the Krupa family friends who have positions in government have attempted to help them, only to come up against the same impenetrable wall of resistance. Some of these people have told Alfred outright that racial and cultural prejudices have something to do with what’s happening to them. These same people pointed to the influence of a certain group on Croatian politics: Opus Dei.

Krupa himself is Catholic, and holds no quarrel with Opus Dei. There is no good reason why they should have anything against him or his family. However, friends of his on the inside in Karlovac, and even in the present Croatian Presidential administration, have warned Alfred that Opus Dei has a vendetta against the Krupas. One only has to read the bestseller Their Kingdom Come by Robert Hutchison to learn about the influence of Opus Dei on Croatian history, including the arming, funding and training of the Bosnian Croat militia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The newly-elected Croatian President, Ivo Josipovic, is rumored by the local papers to be a member. As it turns out, Tomislav Maras, Presiding Judge for the Karlovac Municipal Court, is a known member as well. Interestingly, Zagreb Bank was recently purchased by the Vatican Bank.

Does that have anything to do with why the Krupas are about to have their property stolen from them. Or why 12 innocent people, the youngest age 10, are soon to be sleeping in the snow under a bridge in Karlovac, along with their faithful bulldog (whom the courts have ordered to be destroyed)? Lord only knows. All the Krupas know is that they are about to lose everything they have worked so hard for, and they have nowhere to go. The Chamber of Commerce in Karlovac already attempted an eviction in January 2010, with a giant SWAT team of militarized police, and only stopped when the Chief of Police called it off to stop Mladen Krupa from committing suicide in protest. On their next attempt, scheduled for February 23rd 2010, they are planning on arresting the Krupas the day before to get them out of the way.

They need your help.

We need to put pressure on the government in Croatia to stop this, and simultaneously pressure media both within and without the country to help. Please join the Facebook group "Stop the Eviction of the Krupa Family" and write letters to the following contacts demanding that they do something to put a stop to this. Also please forward this information to media outlets everywhere. With your help we can shine a spotlight on not only this case, but all of the corruption, abuse, and racism in Croatia. Thank you!

Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia:
email: Ustavni_sud@usud.hr
Zagreb 10 000, Varšavska 3

Office of the President of the Constitutional Court
Ksenija Podgornik, Head of the Office
Tel.: +385 1 6400 100
Fax: +385 1 6400 000
e-mail: Ksenija_Podgornik@usud.hr

General Secretariat

Teodor Antić, LL M, Secretary General

Contact person: Tatjana Brajković, Secretary

Tel.: +385 1 6400 200

Fax: +385 1 6400 001

e-mail: Tatjana_Brajkovic@usud.hr

Alfred Krupa can be reached at: mladen.krupa@gmail.com

Click here for the full-length audio mp3 of an English-language interview with Alfred Krupa: [LINK]

Also, here's the shorter You-Tube version to be used for activism. Please pass this around and make it viral!

Here's the full source video of the attempted eviction in January 2010, posted by the local newspaper Karlovac Danas: [LINK]

Here's an English-Language article about the Krupas in a recent issue of the Croatian Times: [LINK]

Here's a Croatian-language story about the Krupas in a recent issue of Karlovac Danas: [LINK]

Here's a Croatian-language interview that Alfred Krupa did recently for a local radio station: [LINK]

Here's a Croatian-language poster that Croatians can print out and distribute: [LINK]

Read about the intertwined history of Opus Dei and Croatia in Their Kingdom Come by Robert Hutchison.

Read Matt Prodger's piece "Croatia cursed by crime and corruption" for the BBC.

Write to Matt Prodger to suggest that he cover the Krupa case on his BBC Radio show Crossing Continents. Click here.

Statement from Helsinki Committee in Support of Krupa Family

Facsimile Typescript of the Statement by Mr. Ivo Banac

Chair of the Croatian Helsinki Committee on Human Rights

CERTIFIED TRANSLATION FROM CROATIAN

CROATIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (CHC)

Bauerova 4/11, 10000 Zagreb Croatia

Tel: (+385) - 1 – 4613 – 630

Fax: (+384) – 1 – 463 – 650

Email: hho@hho.hr

Statement given by the Chair of the Croatian Helsinki Committee

The Croation Helsinki Committee wishes to warn the public and the Government Institutions of numerous illegal actions which have been taking place in Karlovac over the past years directed against the Krupa family from Karlovac, Domobranska 8.

Here we have the same case as one that the lawyers, with their protest, warned of before the Court at Velika Gorica yesterday. It concerns the possibility that the Court, inspection, cadastre and other bodies of the executive authority are used for gross robbery and plunder with the assistance of the Croatian Police.

In the earlier procedures against the Krupa family, the experts of the CHC already established that such procedures exceed the standard procedures of the executive authority, particularly the Ministry of the Interior. It has also been established that in the proceedings against the Krupa family in the Municipal Court in Karlovac all the cases are decided on by the same judge regardless of whether the Krupa family are a plaintiff or a defendant and all the cases later come to one judge at the County Court in Karlovac for confirmation.

On the basis of such decisions, an illegal eviction of the Krupa family from their family house in which they have been living for 54 years has been proved. The eviction is scheduled for tomorrow, November 27th 2008 at 8.30am. The very extent of the eviction preliminary actions is certainly UNUSUAL in Croatian Court practice. After having been reduced to poverty by the actions of the Croatian Authorities in a similar 'eviction', with an inadequate police security measures, the Krupa family now face kicking in the street.

We hereby support the yesterday's claim of the Paliament Committee for Petitions and Appeals by which they demand the President of the Court in Karlovac to postpone the eviction of the Krupa family until the justice and legality of the desputable decision is established.

The CHC belives that behind all the actions directed against the Krupa family stand a well-established network of several members of one 'family' specialising for cleaning the cadastre and land registries. The CHC also wishes to metion that one local journalist received threats after having written about the Krupa family in the Jutartji List.

Therefore we ask The Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction as well as the Ministry of the Interior to postpone the said eviction.

We also ask for an inter-ministerial examination of the case at the Government Commission and relevent Parliamentary Committees level with the aim of determining the irregularities in the prcedure, punishing the perpetrators and removing them from the institution so of the executive and legislative authorities.

 I, Davorka Vouk, a permanent translator and interpreter, duly sworn by the decree of the President of the County Court in Karlovac No.: 4-Su 405/06-2 of August 10th , 2006, hereby attest that the above translation corresponds to its original in the Croatian language.

In Karlovac this day........ Dec 11 2009.

 Signed….....Davorka Vouk.

Signed and sealed on the original copy by the translator.

Krupa Attorney's Complaint to the Constitutional Court

To the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb

PLAINTIFFS:

1.      MLADEN KRUPA  

DURDICA KRUPA 

Both from Karlovac, Domobranska 8, represented by their proxy

Mario Jutt, an Attorney-at-Law, from Karlovac,

hereby file a -

Constitutional Complaint

      for a Breach of Constitutional Rights

                                      from the Article 14, 19, 26 and 28

                                                     of the Constitution of the Republic

                                                     of Croatia.

Twice – enclosures;

A/ Power of Attorney

B/ Certified copy of the Decision of Destraint OVR-604/03 of April 18, 2003

C/ Appeal against the decision OVR-604/03

D/ Letter of the CHC to the Court of November 20, 2008

E/ Letter of the CHC to the Government of the Republic of Croatia of November       20, 2008

F/ Letter of the CHC to the Ministry of November 20, 2008

G/ Statement of the Chair of the CHC of November 26, 2008

H/ Decision Gzp-103/08

                                            _________________________________

1.      By the decision on destraint of the Municipal Court in Karlova No.: Ovr-604/03 of April 18, 2003 the destraint proposed by the destrainer Zagrebacka Banka d.d. Zagreb upon the destraint proposal of April 14, 2003 was ordered. Exhibit under Closure B/.

2.      Through their Proxy the destrainees as plaintiffs filed an appeal in due time against the Decision on Destraint No.: Ovr-604/03 of April 18, 2003 in which, among other things, they raised objections to the evidence in support of the proposal, the amount of debt as of March 1, 2003 and suggested an accounting expert report. Exhibit: Appeal of June 6, 2003, under Eclosure C/.

3.      The Court was not deciding on the objection to the justification of the debt and the amount, the fact that could not be known to the plaintiffs as mortgage sureties since the credit was the obligation of the firm AutoKrupa d.d. to ZABA  (The Bank) and the firm AutoKrupa d.d. Claimed that all their credit commitments had been fulfilled in full. Despite the objection to the justification and the amount, the Court failed to instruct the plaintiffs to submit a claim for destraint impermissibility so the plaintiffs initiated, of their own initiative, such proceedings in the Municipal Court in Zagreb on October 30, 2003 under N.: P-10829/03. The claim was handed over to the Municipal Court in Karlovac under No.: P-747/04  (Judge Strucelj) i.e. the same Judge that was deciding in the destraint proceedings No.: Ovr-604/03.

     Judge Strucelj scheduled the first hearing on the claim No.: P-747/04 for November 13, 2007, i.e. four years after the date the action for a distraint impermissibility  was instituted. This is impermissible because because the claim for a destraint impermissibilty is prejudicial issue for the execution of the destraint and despite a number of plaintiffs submissions to this Court in the destraint proceedings No.: Ovr-604/03 (objections, appeals, exemption claims, proposals for the termination of the proceedings, proposals for the postponement of the destraint), the judge, without establishing the amount of the debt and its justification, carried out all the destraint actions and made decisions and conclusions until the public auction (To the Reader: These auctions sold the AutoKrupa Engineering Facility and Car Dealership Offices), and at the third public auction on November 6, 2007 sold the real estate (the Flat where four [Krupa] families – 12 members live) for a scandalously low amount. So far, a scheduled settlement hearing has not been held and the judge continued the destraint by depossessing  - evicting the persons (12) and things from the plaintiffs flat that was bought at the public  auction by Vesna Rodic, a third party. Up to this day the judge has not paid off the destrainer Zagrebacka Banka d.d. Upon their destrant claim and, from the selling price, (nor) the plaintiffs as destrainees. It seems the aim of these destraint proceedings No.: Ovr-604/03 was to sell the real estate to Vesna Rodic and not to pay off a possible debt whose amount or justification had not been established. Exhibit: As above and the document of the Municipal Court in Karlovac No.: Ovr-604/03, document of the Municipal Court No.: P-747/04 on destraint impermissibility and the decision of the County Court in Karlovac No.: Gzp-103/08 – Enclosure under H/.

4.      Regardless of the claim for destraint impermissibility with the proposal for ordering a temporary measure in the document of the Municipal Court in Karlovac No.: P-747/04 (the proceedings had not validly finished yet), Judge Strucelj did not postpone or suspend the destraint by eviction from the falt and giving the flat to the new owner. He, as a destraint Judge, and even the County Court in Karlovac, did not take into account legal reasons determined by the Article 6 and 61 of the Destraint Act and, in the meantime, because of the claim for the completion of the proceedings in a reasonable time (Gtp-103/08) (was) made without carrying out (listening to) the plaintiffs evidence, a negative first-instance ruling in which he did decide on or explain the proposal for ordering a temporary measure. The third public auction was carried out by the same judge (Strucelj) on November 6, 2007 i.e. before the first hearing in the case No.:P-747/04 for destraint impermissibility was scheduled, the first hearing (for destraint impermissibility) was held on November 13, 2007. (a full week after the judge had sold the Krupa's flat and belongings at public auction). Exhibit: As above

5.      On November 20, 2008, the Chair of the CHC sent a letter to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia for the attention of the President, a letter to the Government of the Republic of Croatia for the attention of the President and a letter to the Ministry of Physical Planning and Construction for the attention of the Minister, informing them that the experts of the CHC had found irregularities and breaches of law the details of which would be sent to the above institutions. They also issued a declaration – a statement made by the Chair of the Croatian Helsinki committee Ivo Banac on 26 November 2008 but none of the above named have reacted yet although it is a case of serious irregularities and breaches of law at the expense of the plaintiffs and their family.

     Exhibit: Enclosures under D, E, F,  and G and as above.

6.      In terms (of) the Article 63 of the Constitutional Law on the (and the) Constitutional Court, since the above stated and described reasons show that the disputed acts violate (the) plaintiffs' constitutional rights and since it is obvious that notinstituting constitutional proceedings will cause severe and incorrigible consequences to the complainant (plaintiffs) and, in terms of the Article 45 of the same act, we hereby propose that before making a final decision, the execution of the individual acts and actions based on the law and whose compliance with the Constitution and Law is being assessed to be temporarily suspended since by their execution the plaintiffs could suffer severe and incorrigible consequences which are stated and described in the destraint proceeding No.: Ovr-604/03, and since the legal destraint proceedings have not been completed yet which indicates the legal possibilities in these proceedings have not yet been exhausted and since the plaintiffs' rights have been violated and since, by such actions of the Court the plaintiffs' Constitutional rights from the Article(s) 14, 19, 26 and 28 of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia are severely violated and since it is obvious that by not istituting Constitutional Court proceedings could cause severe and incorrigible consequences to the complainants in terms of the Article 63 of the Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, we hereby propose that the Constitutional Court institute proceedings on this constitutional complaint and make the following

Ruling

1.      The Constitutional Complaint is hereby adopted.

2.      All the actions of the Municipal Court in Karlovac in the destraint proceedings No.: Ovr-604/03 after the appeal against the decision on destraint of April 18, 2003 are hereby invalidated and the said actions have no legal effect.

3.      All the Courts in the jurisdiction are of Karlovac are exempted from these destraint proceedings and the proceedings will be held at the Court determined by The Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia.

4.      The execution of the individual actions based on the Law is temporarily suspended until this Court makes a final decision.

Karlovac, November 20, 2009.                                                   Plaintiffs through the Proxy

                                                                                                     (signed – signature illegible)

Seal: Mario Jutt

Attorney-at Law

Krizaniceva 3

47000 Karlovac

Croatia

I, Davorka Vouk, a permanent translator and interpreter, duly sworn by the decreeof the President of the County Court in Karlovac No.: 4-Su 405/06-2 of August 10, 2006, hereby attest that the above translation corresponds to its original in the Croatian language.

In Karlovac this day....December 11, 2009.

Signed.... Davorka Vouk.

Unlawful eviction and theft of property by corrupt governments officials is about to turn the family of a celebrated artist out into the streets.

IN THIS MESSAGE YOU WILL FIND MENTIONED A DETAILED STATEMENT OF APPEAL WHICH HAS BEEN LODGED WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA BY MR. MARIO JUTT, LAWYER TO THE PLAINTIFFS; MAJOR AND MRS MLADEN TARNAWA-KRUPA OF KARLOVAC.

THE KRUPAS FIRST MOVED TO CROATIA IN 1943. PRIOR TO THIS TIME MAJOR KRUPA'S FATHER – ALFRED - AND HIS FAMILY HAD BEEN MOVED FROM ONE NAZI DEATH CAMP TO ANOTHER. ALFRED'S SISTER HAD BEEN BURNED ALIVE BY THE GERMANS AND ALFRED HIMSELF ONLY SURVIVED THE GAS CHAMBER BY A FORTUITOUS ACT OF GOD. JUST AS THE GUARD WAS ABOUT TO CLOSE THE CHAMBER DOORS A RUSSIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON DIVE-BOMBED THE CAMP AND BLEW IT INTO OBLIVION.

ALFRED MANAGED TO ESCAPE AMIDST ALL THE TERROR AND MAYHEM BUT LATER FOUND HIMSELF RECRUITED INTO THE AFRIKA KORPS WHO, OF ALL THINGS, TRAINED HIM FOR DESERT COMBAT BY SENDING HIM TO A BARRACKS NESTLED IN THE TIROLEAN MOUNTAINS.

ONCE HE HAD FINISHED HIS INDUCTION, RATHER THAN BEING SENT TO NORTH AFRICA, ALFRED – A POLISH JEW - FOUND HIMSELF BEING WHISKED OFF TO THE BALKANS WHERE HIS REGIMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO QUELL PARTISAN INSURGENCY AND LIASE WITH THE USTAZI AND THE HUNGARIANS, AND ASSIST WITH THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWISH POPULATION. HOWEVER, UNBEKNOWNST TO HIS NAZI SUPERIORS, ALFRED HAD OTHER PLANS ALTOGETHER.

A couple of days into his tour of duty his Company was annihilated by a platoon of Croatian Partisans. Again, Alfred managed to cheat death by hurling himself over a large rock only to find himself staring down the barrel of a partisan's rifle.

ALFRED TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THE LAD THAT HE WAS POLISH BUT TO NO AVAIL. JUST AS THE CHAP WAS ABOUT TO PULL THE TRIGGER, A LITTLE OLD LADY FROM THE RED CROSS SUDDENLY JUMPED UP, PUNCHED THE PARTISAN, AND THE GUN DISCHARGED IN MID-AIR. DISCUSSIONS ENSUED AND ALFRED BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A CROATIAN PARTISAN IN CHARGE OF HEAVY GUN BATTERIES.

DURING THIS LATEST STAGE IN HIS MILITARY VOCATION ALFRED ASSISTED IN THE RESCUE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SON, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN BY GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, AND HE LOYALLY SERVED HIS ADOPTED NATION WITH HONOUR AND DISTINCTION. WHEN HE RETIRED AFTER THE WAR HE WAS FETED AS A HIGHLY DECORATED, CROATIAN NATIONAL HERO.

ALFRED KRUPA MOVED TO KARLOVAC, MARRIED A LOCAL ETHNIC CROATIAN GIRL AND SPENT THE REST OF HIS REMAINING YEARS AS A CELEBRATED ARTIST, CONSIDERED TO ONE OF THE BEST WATERCOLOURISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

FORTY FIVE YEARS LATER ALFRED'S SON MLADEN CONTINUED THE FAMILY'S LOYAL MILITARY TRADITION. DURING THE BALKAN CONFLICT OF THE EARLY 1990'S MAJOR MLADEN KRUPA CO-FOUNDED THE KARLOVAC COUNTY REGIMENT OF THE CROATIAN ARMY OF LIBERATION AND ORGANIZED THEIR ENGINEERING UNITS. AS THE WAR CONTINUED MLADEN'S SON, ALFRED KRUPA JUNIOR, MANAGED TO DEFECT FROM THE YUGOSLAVIAN FORCES AND JOIN HIS FATHER AS A NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. BOTH MEN SERVED THE CROATIAN REPUBLIC WITH LOYALTY AND DISTINCTION AS THEIR SIRE, ALFRED SENIOR, HAD DONE BEFORE THEM.

FOR THREE GENERATIONS THE TARNAWA-KRUPA FAMILY HAVE BEEN LAUDED AS PROMINENT CROATIAN INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS. ALFRED KRUPA IS A LEADING PROFESSOR OF FINE ART, HIS WORKS ARE DISPLAYED IN KARLOVAC MUSEUM AND FORM A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF MANY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS BOTH IN CROATIA AND ACROSS THE WORLD. ALFRED IS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE IN LONDON; THE CROATIAN SOCIETY OF ARTS AND THE CROATIAN SOCIETY OF ART HISTORIANS IN ZAGREB. HIS OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHEIVEMENTS HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED IN 16 SINGLE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS ACROSS CROATIA, AND HAVE FORMED PART OF MANY OTHER EXHIBITIONS IN CROATIA AND GERMANY.

ALTHOUGH OF EARLY JEWISH ORIGIN, THE KRUPAS ARE BAPTISED CATHOLICS WHO DESCEND FROM AN ANCIENT POLISH NOBLE AND ROYAL FAMILY AND ALFRED KRUPA JUNIOR INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED THE WESTERN EUROPEAN CATHOLIC ORDER OF KNIGHTS TEMPLARS IN CROATIA, WHERE HE SUBSEQUENTLY HELD THE OFFICE OF GRAND PRIOR, ASSISTED BY HIS FATHER. ALFRED WAS BESTOWED WITH THE TITLE OF IMPERIAL CHEVALIER BY HIH CROWN PRINCE JACOBE WOSSEN, RECEIVED A TITULAR DUCHY OF JERUSALEM AND LATER SERVED IN THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS AS CHIEF OF PROTOCOL IN THE GRAND PRECEPTORY OF LA ROCHELLE.

THE KRUPA FAMILY HAD THEIR OWN VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS; AUTOKRUPA LTD, CONSISTING OF AN ENGINEERING FACILITY AND A CAR DEALERSHIP WHOSE OFFICES WERE SITUATED BENEATH THE KRUPA RESIDENCE IN THE BEAUTIFUL PALACE OF KARLOVAC. THE BUSINESS HAD A METICULOUS TRACK RECORD WHEN IT CAME TO PAYING ITS OVERHEADS AND AT THE TIME OUR STORY BEGINS THE COMPANY WAS FINANCIALLY SOUND AND DEBT FREE.

SO ALL IN ALL THE FAMILY, WHO WERE FINANCIALLY WELL OFF AND OWNED THE EXTREMELY DESIRABLE PROPERTY THEY OCCUPIED, WERE WELL LIKED AND RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL FAMILY AT LARGE. THIS WAS PROBABLY THEIR DOWNFALL.

IN THE PLEA BY THE KRUPAS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN ZAGREB, IN 2003 IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE FAMILY'S BANKERS - ZAGREBACKA BANKA D.D. OF ZAGREB, INVENTED A DEBT OF 30,000 EUROS AND CHARGED THIS NON-EXISTENT SUM TO AUTOKRUPA LTD, WHOSE GUARANTORS WERE MAJOR AND MRS MLADEN TARNAWA-KRUPA. MR. AND MRS KRUPA HAD OFFERED THEIR RESIDENCE – WORTH SOME 250,000 EUROS - TO THEIR BANKERS AS SURETY FOR THE FAMILY BUSINESS, WHICH WAS BEING RUN BY ALFRED.

ON 14TH APRIL 2003 THE BANK FILED A SUIT OF DISTRAINT AGAINST AUTOKRUPA LTD IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF KARLOVAC. THE COURT ENFORCED THE ORDER IN THE BANK'S FAVOUR ON THE 18TH OF THAT MONTH. THE KRUPAS FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE SAME COURT, STATING THAT THE DEBT DIDN'T EXIST AND THAT TO CLAIM THAT IT DID, EVEN TO THE AMOUNT REQUIRED BY THE BANK (PLUS INTEREST) WAS TOTALLY UNJUSTIFIABLE. THE COURT IGNORED THIS AND FAILED TO DIRECT THE FAMILY TO FILE A SUIT OF INADMISSIBILITY OF DESTRAINT. THE NAMES OF THE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING JUDGE IN THIS STAGE OF THE CASE CAN BE FOUND BELOW.

HOWEVER, ON THE ADVICE OF THEIR ATTORNEY, THE KRUPAS DID FILE THE COUNTER SUIT OF DESTRAINT IN OCTOBER 2003 AND THIS WAS HEARD IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN KARLOVAC AND, SURPRISE SURPRISE, THE PRESIDING JUDGE WAS THE SAME ONE WHO HAD EARLIER FOUND IN FAVOUR OF THE BANK WHO HAD INVENTED THE KRUPA DEBT OUT OF NOTHING AND STOPPED THE COMPANY FROM TRADING.

ALTHOUGH FILED IN 2003, THE KRUPAS COUNTERSUIT AGAINST THE BANK'S FRAUDULENT DESTRAINT WASN'T ALLOWED TO BE HEARD UNTIL 13TH NOVEMBER 2007, FOUR YEARS AFTER THE INITIAL KRUPA COUNTERSUIT WAS PRESENTED TO THIS SURPRISINGLY INTERESTED JUDGE. BY THIS TIME A HEALTHY FOUR YEARS INTEREST ON THE INVENTED AUTOKRUPA DEBT HAD BEEN INCURRED, AND THE SPACE OF TIME IN WHICH THE CASE FINALLY CAME TO COURT HAD BEEN DECLARED TO BE OVERLONG AND ILLEGAL.

SO BY THIS TIME WE HAVE A FAMILY WHOSE ABILITY TO EARN AN INCOME HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM THEM AND HAVE BEEN LEFT MORE OR LESS DESTITUTE, BUT THERE'S MORE TO COME.

ON THE 6TH NOVEMBER 2007, DESPITE NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS AND ATTEMPTED ACTIONS BY THE FAMILY, THE SAME JUDGE IGNORED ALL THEIR PLEAS AGAINST THIS INJUSTICE AND SOLD AT AUCTION THE FAMILY HOME AND CONTENTS AT KARLOVAC PALACE, WHICH HOUSED TWELVE PEOPLE, FOR A SCANDALOUSLY LOW PRICE (SOURCE: MARIO JUTT), TO A PERSON CALLED VESNA RODIC OF ZAGREB. THIS SAME JUDGE SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN TO PAY THE BANK THE MONEY THEY DEMANDED FROM THE KRUPAS AND, THE LAWYER CLAIMS, THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EXERCISE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN TO ENGINEER, USING LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE, THE SALE OF THE KRUPA HOME AND BELONGINGS TO VESNA RODIC FROM ZAGREB, FOR VIRTUALLY NOTHING.

REMEMBER, THE JUDGE – MR JOSIP STRUCELJ – WHO SEEMS TO HAVE GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO ATTEND TO ALL STAGES OF THESE CORRUPT AND REPREHENSIBLE PROCEEDINGS, AND HAS EVEN BEEN SAID TO HAVE MADE SERIOUS PERSONAL THREATS TO MR. MARIO JUTT THE KRUPA'S DEFENCE LAWYER (CHC). ACCORDING TO THE SAME LAWYER, MR. STRUCELJ NEVER HAD ANY INTENTIONS OF AWARDING THE AMOUNT OF THE ULTIMATE DEBT TO THE BANK, WHICH AMOUNT AND ITS INITIAL JUSTIFICATION WERE NEVER DIVULGED BY HIM.

PERHAPS SOMEONE TOOK A SHINE TO THE KARLOVAC PALACE APARTMENTS OWNED BY THE FAMILY AND, FANCYING A HOLIDAY HOME WHERE THEY COULD TAKE NICE WEEKEND BREAKS FROM ALL THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF DOWNTOWN ZAGREB, DECIDED TO INITIATE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PROCEEDINGS OF THEIR OWN, STARTING MAYBE WITH A PAY-OFF TO THE BANK AND ENDING UP, THROUGH NUMEROUS LEGAL (OR SHOULD I APPARENTLY ILLEGAL) COURT ACTIONS WHICH, TODAY, LEAVE THE KRUPAS FACING EVICTION ON 12TH JANUARY 2010.

THROUGH THOROUGH RESEARCH IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE KARLOVAC COURTS HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED TO EVICT A FAMILY (WITH YOUNG CHILDREN) AND LEAVE THEM WANDERING THE STREETS, WITH NOWHERE TO GO, IN THE DEPTHS OF THE HARSH, FREEZING CROATIAN MIDWINTER. AND THIS HAS BEEN ORDERED, WE WILL REMEMBER, BY JUDGE JOSIP STRUCELJ.

THE KRUPAS FOUGHT THE INITIAL EVICTION ORDERS ON APPEAL AND SO FAR THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE, BY THE SKIN OF THEIR TEETH, TO AVOID HOMELESSNESS. AS YOU WILL SEE FROM THE KRUPAS APPEAL TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN ZAGREB, THE CHC – THE CROATIAN HELSINKI COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS – WHICH HELPS FIGHT CORRUPTION, FRAUD AND ILLEGAL IRREGULARITIES BECAME INVOLVED. ON 20TH NOVEMBER 2008 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHC, MR. IVO BANAC, WROTE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, AND A LETTER TO THE MINISTRY OF PHYSICAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. WELL OVER A YEAR LATER, NONE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS HAS BOTHERED TO REPLY.

WHY? IS IT LETHARGY AND INDIFFERENCE? IS IT THAT THEY WANT THE SITUATION TO GO AWAY, AND SO THEY ARE BURYING THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND LIKE A FLOCK OF OSTRICHES, OR IS IT BECAUSE THEY TOO HAVE SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOSETS? IT WOULDN'T BE SURPRISING. BY ALL ACCOUNTS CORRUPTION AND FRAUD ARE ENDEMIC TO THE CROATIAN WAY OF LIFE AND, WITHOUT ITS PRESENCE AT MANY LEVELS OF THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE, IT IS STATED AUTHORITATIVELY THAT THE CROATIAN REPUBLIC WOULD COLLAPSE.

BECAUSE NOTHING IS BEING DONE INSIDE CROATIA, PERHAPS THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE A BIT MORE NOTICE IF THE KRUPA CASE IS AIRED INTERNATIONALLY. TO THIS END, THIS DOCUMENT OF PROTEST HAS BEEN SENT TO OVER 5000 CONTACTS WORLDWIDE AND IN ALSO CROATIA ITSELF. THESE CONTACTS WILL SEND IT TO THOUSANDS OF OTHER CONTACTS, INCLUDING TV, RADIO AND NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS INTERNATIONALLY. THE KRUPA CASE IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT, IT IS WOVEN INTO WHAT SEEMS TO BE A FAR REACHING WEB OF UBIQUITOUS, OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED CULTURE OF CORRUPTION; OF FRAUD, INTIMIDATION, PERSECUTION AND MAFIA MURDERS.
(SOURCE: 'JAVNO')

SINCE THIS TRAGIC ABOMINATION BEGAN A DECADE AGO THE KRUPA FAMILY SAY THEY HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO LEGAL HARASSMENT AND THREATS, THEY HAVE BEEN SUMMONED TO THE KARLOVAC COURTS ON THE WHIM OF THIS SAME JUDGE, WHEN THEY WERE NOT EVEN SCHEDULED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE BENCH, WHO THEN, BECAUSE OF THE KRUPA'S UNWITTING ABSENCE WERE ARRESTED BY THE LOCAL POLICE ON THE ORDERS OF THE SELF SAME JUDGE AND WERE DETAINED FOR NO REASON AT ALL.

ACCORDING TO MARIO JUTT A CERTAIN SPECIALISED “FAMILY” (ID EST “MAFIOSI”) HAVE BEEN REGULARLY USED TO CLEAR CADASTRES AND LAND REGISTRIES IN THIS AND NUMEROUS OTHER CASES INVOLVING OTHER FAMILIES, AND THREATS TO ONE JOURNALIST'S LIFE WERE MADE WHEN THEY PUBLISHED THE KRUPA STORY(CHC). THE KRUPAS HAVE BEEN PHYSICALLY THROWN OUT OF THE COURT, DOWN THE STEPS OF THE BUILDING AND ONTO THE STREET WHEN POSSIBLY THE JUDGE DIDN'T LIKE THE DIRECTION OF THEIR EVIDENCE. THEY, AND MRS KRUPA IN PARTICULAR, SAY THEY HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED, OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS SINCE THIS VICTIMISATION BEGAN, TO DEPLORABLE AND TOTALLY UNCONSCIONABLE VERBAL ABUSE ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS BY THE COURTS AND TWO WEEKS AGO THE COURT ACTUALLY RULED THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR FAMILY PET, A BULLDOG, DESTROYED. WHY?

BECAUSE, DESPITE BEING BAPTISED CATHOLICS AND DESPITE BEING LOYAL AND HEROIC CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC, THEY ARE KNOWN TO BE ULTIMATELY OF HEBREW DESCENT AND THIS, CYNICALLY, AND FURTIVELY, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN DECIDED TO BE SUFFICIENT AN EXCUSE, AND CAUSE ENOUGH, TO TARGET THE KRUPAS IN A CAMPAIGN OF RELENTLESS, RUTHLESS AND CHRONIC SUBLIMINAL RACE HATRED AND VICTIMISATION, FUELLED BY THE GREED, JEALOUSY AND ENVY OF THE MAFIA IT WOULD APPEAR WHO, IT IS CLAIMED, ARE SUPPORTED BY LOW PAID JUDGES WHO USE THEIR POWERS TO DO THE BIDDING OF THEIR MOB MASTERS, AND WHO USE THE POLICE AS THEIR OWN PRIVATE MILITIA (CHC).

CROATIA HOPES FOR ABSORBTION INTO PAN EUROPA AND IS TO NEGOTIATE MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. IF EVERYTHING WE HEAR IS TRUE THEN WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES WHETHER WE, AS EUROPEANS, WISH TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH AN OPPRESSIVE, BANKRUPT REGIME WHICH IS, TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, GOVERNED ON MANY LEVELS BY A CROATIAN PEASANT, WANNABE VERSION OF THE ITALIAN MAFIA. AS A POINT OF IDLE INTEREST THE READER MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW THAT, AFTER THE BALKAN WAR, ZAGREBACKA BANKA D.D. OF ZAGREB, WAS BOUGHT OUT BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT. WHILST BEING A SUBSIDIARY WITHIN THE ITALIAN BANKING SYSTEM, ZAGREACKA BANKA HAVE ILLEGALLY PULLED OUT THE RUG FROM BENEATH THE KRUPA FAMILY, AND WE HAVE HEARD NO CRIES OF OBJECTION, AND NO EXORTATIONS TO CEASE AND DESIST, COMING FROM THE DIRECTION OF THEIR ITALIAN MASTERS, WHO MUST HAVE KNOWN WHAT THEIR CROATIAN ACQUISITION WAS UP TO. DOES THIS SUGGEST JOINT CULPABILITY AND TACIT APPROVAL ON THE PART OF THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT?

I HAVE EVERY FAITH IN MADAM PRIME MINISTER JADRANKA KOSOR, WHO SAID RECENTLY IN CROATIA'S NEWSPAPER 'JAVNO', THAT “EVERYONE INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE”. SHE IS CLEARLY DETERMINED TO ACT, BUT HAVING LOOKED AT THE RESEARCH AND THE FINDINGS OF THE HELSINKI COMMISSION, SHE WILL FACE HEAVY RESISTANCE IN TRYING TO ERADICATE WHAT HAS BEEN FOR GENERATIONS AFTER ALL, A POPULAR AND VERY LUCRATIVE NATIONAL HOBBY.

ANY CORRESPONDENT HERETO WHO WISHES TO READ EXAMPLES OF NATIONAL CORRUPTION, OR WOULD LIKE TO STUDY THE REPORTS ON THE WEAKNESS, LISTLESSNESS AND FATALISM WHICH NOW COMPRISES THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF THE CROATIA GRASSROOTS POPULATION, AND WHICH PREVENTS THEM FROM TAKING A UNITED STAND IN THE FACE OF INSTITUTIONALISED CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION, ARE ENCOURAGED TO FIND THE MOST RECENT COPY OF 'JAVNO' ON THE NET
(HTTP://WWW.JAVNO.COM/HR-HRVATSKA/KRUPA--KAZNENO-SMO-PRIJAVILI-NADANA-VIDOSEVICA_205346 ) THE REPORTS FROM CROATIA'S MOST PROMINENT AND INFLUENTIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS MAKES ABSORBING READING.

The Tarnawa-Krupas are decent, loyal and law-abiding citizens. They love their country and they love their Croatian brothers and sisters and do not wish to be forced to flee their homeland. However, in the face of such apparently unyielding and sustained racial cruelty, and now in fear for their very safety and physical existence, the Krupas are forced unwillingly to consider moving from their beloved republic and to seek refugee status in Europe before, as they fear, that they too will pay the ultimate price for being Jewish and successful.

FINALLY, IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT CROATIA HAS OPENED ITS DOORS TO FOREIGN HOLIDAY MAKERS AND IS KEEN TO BENEFIT FROM THE INFLUX OF OVERSEAS CURRENCY INJECTED INTO THE ECONOMY VIA TOURISM. IT IS ALSO VERY KEEN TO MARKET ITS VACANT PROPERTIES AS HOLIDAY HOMES TO PEOPLE LIVING OUTSIDE THE REPUBLIC. TWO POINTS ARISE IN OPPOSITION TO THESE FINANCIAL AMBITIONS.

1.WHAT FOREIGN NATIONAL WOULD WANT TO RISK VISITING A COUNTRY THAT, HOWEVER SCENIC AND BEAUTIFUL, WOULD, BY ALL OUTWARD APPEARANCES, ALLOW ITS POLICE AND ITS LEGISLATURE TO BE CONTROLLED BY ITS OWN HOMEGROWN MAFIA, WHEN, IT IS CLAIMED, THAT LEGISLATURE USES THE POLICE TO ARREST AND DETAIN ITS OWN PEOPLE AT WHIM?

2.Who would buy a holiday home in Croatia knowing now that, if the mafia wanted the property for themselves, they could easily pressurize or bribe government officials to conveniently lose their property deeds and thereby force an eviction, resulting in the loss of the foreign investor's life savings, a tragic situation for which they may have no redress in Croatian law at all? If the government allows this to happen to their own people, not only to the Krupas, but to numerous other Croatian families as well, as stated by the Croatian Helsinki Commission, then it forces the very serious question; what level of indifference to, or culpability in, the blatant theft of property would then pertain, when it belonged to a foreign national?

THE ONLY SENSIBLE ADVICE HERE WOULD BE, IN THE INTERIM, TO WARN FOREIGN NATIONALS IN THE STRONGEST OF TERMS TO AVOID THE REPUBLIC, AND TO PLEAD WITH EUROPEAN AND OVERSEAS COMPANIES TO THINK TWICE BEFORE SINKING GOOD CASH INTO A DEAD LOSS.

AS 'JAVNO' HAS ALREADY REPORTED, ONE FOREIGN BUSINESS HAS HAD TO SHELL OUT CONSIDERABLE SUMS IN BRIBES TO OFFICIALS IN ORDER TO SECURE THEIR POSITIONS IN THE CROATIAN MARKETPLACE, AT THE COST OF MILLIONS OF KUNAS IN LOST REVENUE TO THE STATE.

IMAGINE THE SIZE THAT CORPORATE SLUSH-FUNDS MIGHT HAVE TO REACH IF SERIOUS BUSINESS WAS BEING NEGOTIATED. ALSO CONSIDER THAT BY BEING FORCED TO DO BUSINESS THIS WAY, FOREIGN INVESTORS MIGHT WELL BE RESPONSIBLE THEMSELVES FOR RE-ENFORCING AND PERPETUATING AN ENDEMIC CULTURE OF CORRUPTION WHICH MAY ULTIMATELY COST THE CROATIAN GOVERNMENT BILLIONS OF KUNA.

SUCH A DEFICIT WOULD INEVITABLY HAVE TO BE PASSED DOWN TO THE INNOCENT MAN ON THE STREET, LEAVING THE NATION AND ITS PEOPLE DESTITUTE, AND ANY PROSPECT OF FUTURE OUTSIDE INVESTMENT UNTENABLE. THOSE COMPANIES WHO MIGHT THEN HAVE ALREADY INVESTED MILLIONS OF EUROS OR DOLLARS IN THE REPUBLIC MIGHT STAND TO LOSE EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAD PLOUGHED INTO THE ECONOMY.

PERSONALLY, WHEN IT COMES TO THE EUROPEAN UNION INVESTING ITS CITIZENS HARD-EARNED TAX EUROS INTO A STATE THAT UNOFFICIALLY, MIGHT EASILY USE THE CASH TO ALLOW GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO BUY FLASH CARS, OR TO OWN PRESTIGIOUS HOLIDAY APARTMENTS IN DUBROVNIC, OR TO FINANCE REGULAR EXPENSIVE HOLIDAYS ABROAD, THE SIMPLE QUESTION IF SUCH MIGHT PERTAIN WOULD BE “WHY ON EARTH SHOULD WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN”?

ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT MONEY MIGHT ALSO BE USED TO PROP UP AN ECONOMY THAT SEEMS FOREVER TO BE TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE WHICH, IF INDEED IT DID, MIGHT COST THE EU BILLIONS, AND THAT LOSS WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE TO BE PAID FOR IN INCREASED TAXES TAKEN OUT OF OUR POCKETS. WE HAVE ALREADY SUFFERED A RECESSION CAUSED BY THE GREED AND STUPIDITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL COMMUNITY, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WITH THEIR IMPENDING EU MEMBERSHIP BEING CONSIDERED, WOULD CONSTANTLY BANK-ROLLING A COUNTRY LIKE CROATIA RESULT IN ANY DIFFERENT A FISCAL SCENARIO IN THE LONG TERM?

I THINK IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL, IF NOT A POLITICAL MIRACLE, IF MADAM JADRANKA KOSOR AND HER SUCCESSORS COULD SERIOUSLY ADDRESS THESE SAD, UNFORTUNATE PROBLEMS, AND BRING THE REPUBLIC INTO THE UNION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STATE AS A WHOLE, AND BY EXTENSION, FOR THE LASTING BENEFIT OF THE LONG SUFFERING CROATIAN PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR. GOOD LUCK.

FINALLY, I MUST THANK THE READERS FOR THEIR PATIENCE IN ADDRESSING THEMSELVES TO THIS PROBLEM. MY CORRESPONDENCE HAS HAD, BY NECESSITY, TO BE EXTENSIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE, IN ORDER THAT THE READERS MAY HAVE SOME APPRECIATION OF THE SEEMINGLY INSURMOUNTABLE SERIOUSNESS OF THE CRISIS THAT THE KRUPA FAMILY HAS TO FACE. A CRISIS WHICH, IF LEFT TO PUBLIC AND POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE, WILL RESULT IN THE CONTINUED DESTITUTION AND ULTIMATELY TO THE COMPLETELY ILLEGAL AND CORRUPT EVICTION OF A PERFECTLY DECENT AND INNOCENT FAMILY AND THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, WHO WILL BE LEFT TO WANDER THE STREETS IN THE HARSH DEPTHS OF WINTER. AND WITH NO FIXED ADDRESS, ANY POSSIBILITY OF EARNING ANY FORM OF INCOME TO FEED THE FAMILY AND THE CHILDREN WILL DISSIPATE ENTIRELY. PLEASE DON'T ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN.

THIS IS NOW A MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND IF THROUGH INDIFFERENCE, THESE APPARENTLY CORRUPT, RACIST INDIVIDUALS ARE ALLOWED TO WIN THE DAY, IT WILL THEN BECOME A MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL CULPABILITY.

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