Frmr Ambassador: I’m Not Going to Croatian Jail!

Although he should have started serving his one-year sentence today, the former ambassador said he was not going to prison.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – As things are now, the former Croatian Ambassador to Belgium, Ljubomir Cucic, will not report to Zagreb’s Remetinec prison where he should begin serving his one-year sentence. We managed to contact Cucic, who is still in Paris, where he is fighting for custody of his children.

Cucic wrote a statement for the Croatian public on his blog in which he explains why he will not be coming back to Croatia and why he will not report to Zagreb’s Remetinec prison to serve his sentence.

- The ‘Cucic case’ has taken on morbid and absurd proportions: two Croatian daughters were illegally deported, handed over to another country, and their father, their only connection with their Croatian family and homeland, after searching for them across Europe for six years, must go to jail. Not for something he did, which everybody following the story know, but because in the fight for his children he publicly speaks of illegality within state institutions – Cucic begins to explain, continuing to say that he will not be reporting to the Croatian prison to serve his sentence.

‘This is a mega fabrication’ 

- Serving a sentence made by the final judgment of a court is an obligation of any individual towards a law-based state and the elementary expression of civil obedience towards the society he lives in! This attitude, without any reserve or doubts, I am repeating before the Croatian public on November 5, 2008, on the day when I am supposed to report to the competent institution to fulfil my obligation. Still I will not do so! Why? Because in my case this is a unique obstruction of the law, justice and common sense, a Kafkaesque grotesque without precedent in the Croatian judiciary. I, Ljubomir Cucic, could not take part in that also because of my life motto to always, despite consequences, be on the side of the truth and common sense – Cucic writes.

Furthermore, he states that he made this decision, which could in the end take him away from his family, friends and homeland for a long time, with a clear conscience because he knows that any other decision would be his capitulation to lies that have spread like a pandemic about him.

Describing the lies and obstruction in his case, Cucic writes: “The ‘Cucic case’ is about just such circumstances, about a mega fabrication. With an impressive coordination of media pressures, institutional obstruction and judicial terror, a judgment was made which is not a statement of the truth established in legal proceedings, but an expression of general consensus that Ljubomir Cucic should be silenced, moved out or put in chains to prevent him from speaking, to prevent him from showing his political ambitions and stances, to vacate the European Home in which he has been ‘digging subversively’ for 13 years and so on…”

Judge Bencic obstructed the case 

This latest fugitive from Croatian law reiterates that he will not go to Croatian prison because he has done nothing of what he was accused of, as well as because the decision about his guilt was made in proceedings that were in themselves a criminal act and his request to establish the responsibility of the investigative judge was blocked within the system. Cucic writes that judge Marko Bencic submitted his appeal to the Supreme Court only five days ago, when he filed it nine months ago.

Cucic of course recounted the entire case with his children and ex wife Magali Boers, her connection with the Opus Dei organisation and finally states:

- While I am searching for our children in our Europe, perhaps some in Croatia will find the will and motivation to, as part of the so-called comprehensive crackdown on corruption, deal with individuals who wanted Sara and Lara Cucic, as well as their dad, to be placed behind bars, them in a sect boarding school and their dad in Lepoglava prison, for their own specific reasons.