Hate crime in Novi Sad: ‘Hungarian bastard, you should be killed’

An unknown man attacked Ivan Fece Firči, a well-known musician among locals, in Novi Sad, Serbia, on Sunday afternoon. The attacker was shouting and swearing loudly in the street. The musician does not even claim to be Hungarian.

According to the man, the attacker was shouting loudly in the street. “He insulted me, cursed and said that you should be killed, you Hungarian bastard. Then he started hitting the car and damaged the headlights,” Fece said. He added that the assailant then walked away and when he got out of the car to assess the extent of the damage, the aggressive passer-by came back and tried to hit him, Szabad Magyar Szó reports.

The drummer was then approached by three men, and the attacker walked away again. The three mystery men then said they would pay if the victim did not dial the police number. Fece refused to accept the money and immediately called the police. The responding officers took the assailant into custody, who, handcuffed, continued to berate the musician and the police officers, whom he also attacked.

Fece testified at the police station that he was not Hungarian. “My parents come from so many mixed marriages that we don’t have a dominant nationality. I was happy as long as I was able to feel Yugoslav in Yugoslavia,” Szabad Magyar Szó quoted the man as saying.

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