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Down this road
Ten years ago on Halloween I was spending some all-night-killer-time in the police station in Samobor. It was a week day, I think. We went to a punk gig and did not expect to stay long. When we came to Samobor in the bowling alley, the concert was already very late. We were waiting for quite some time and then we were told that the concert was canceled. As we found out later, the concert did not have permission to take place, and the organisers were not aware of that. Anyway, we left the alley and walked to the bus terminal. The crowd was wild with disapproval and then the police came to dispel them. By that time I was already half way to the terminal with bunch of my friends. As we were moving away we heard gunshots but we did not pay attention. As we got to the terminal we set down on a sidewalk and we waited for the bus to take us home. Then, out of nowhere, a police van pulled over, guys were armed and they came running out yelling at us to lay on the floor face down with our hands up. They were hitting those who tried to protest with batons. We were all cca 18 then and we were horrified. I avoided hits since I kept extremely low profile. It was pretty cold especially on the concrete...we heard voices of people passing by who were trying to obstruct the disaster. They could not because they were told that they will join us if they do not shut up and leave. After that, they put overmuch of us in that van with no seats and windows and the worst part was that they drove like crazy. We just hoped that we will get alive no matter where they were taking us. As they stopped, we litteraly fell from the van. We saw that we came to some police station and since it was a short ride it must have been Samobor. Whole station was full with people from the concert. Some were drunk, some were beaten, some were quiet, some where protesting, some were just confused. They put us all around the hallway where we were supposed to stand with our hands up on the wall. We had no mobile phones then and I could not call anyone to tell what was happening. If some of us had mobiles then, things would have been different. We were not allowed to go to the toilet and we were called one by one to a serious chat in some room upstairs. It lasted for hours... Finally, it was my turn. They called my ma to tell her where I was (I was already soooo late) and she froze. I remember that my friend's mother came to pick us up and there was 7 of us in the car home.The next few days it was all over the media, worried and resentful parents wondering how can this happen in a democratic state like ours (!!). Who do hell ordered that the special police formation who was very known from the war, abuse their teenage children? There were so many stories of so many people who were there...things have happened that I did not see, I just heard about them later. All the fuss came down pretty quickly and nothing ever happened...authorities did not consider the event as a faut pas. They kinda tried to convince us that we deserved it. I regret that I do not remember more details about that event. All in all, it was pretty nasty. Anyway, people may say this and that about present political power in Croatia, regardless which party is concerned, but I do not think that something like that could happen nowdays. Maybe something has changed in this 10 years...or was it all over and done on decembre 10, 1999? |