Chinese Man Arrested for Singing Croatian Ultranationalist Songs

Chinese citizen Sze Yat Lung, who is currently living in Croatia, was arrested on Monday after a video was posted on social networks showing him singing Croatian ultranationalist songs in a cafe in Imotski, where he was watching the finals of the European Handball Championship between Croatia and Spain.

Croatian media reported that the video was posted online on Sunday but has since been removed. The man allegedly glorified the WWII fascist Ustasa movement.

"Police received reports last night that inappropriate content was being sung at a catering facility in Imotski," a spokesperson for police in the city of Split told media.

The spokesperson did not name the man but said that he was a "foreign national who was singing songs with unacceptable messages and with content that provokes hatred and intolerance".

Police said that the man was brought to a police station on Monday morning, that he committed a public order misdemeanour and will be brought before the Makarska Municipal Court after a criminal investigation.

Forty-four-year-old Sze Yat Lung is already known to the Croatian public. Last February, he appeared in court after being charged with a public order offence for shouting "Za dom spremni" ("Ready for the Homeland"), a Ustasa slogan, in Imotski.

Slobodna Dalmacija newspaper reported at the time that Sze Yat Lung, who comes from Hong Kong, was living in Imotski with his 16-year-old friend Niko Chang. Chang reportedly shares his friend's fascination with the Ustasa movement and has the 'Za dom spremni' slogan tattooed on his arm.

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