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International Internet Magazine. Baltic States news & analytics Tuesday, 19.03.2024, 06:08

The law enforcement did not see anything criminal in the website For White Lithuania

Petras Vaida, BC, Vilnius, 05.10.2015.Print version
The law enforcement did not see anything criminal in the scandalous website whose slogan is For White Lithuania, Let Us Not Allow to Blacken It, and which has divided public figures into "patriots" and "collaborators". The daily Lietuvos Zinios writes that hostile countries are often behind such radical rhetoric, cites LETA/ELTA.

Website www.baltalietuva.eu is campaigning against "forced immigration" and has classified politicians, journalists, analysts and other public figures into good ones and bad ones. Furthermore, it provided a link to a video showing immigrants ravaging an Italian town and also proposed a plan how to solve the crisis. The "patriots", people who are against or are reserved about receiving refugees in Lithuania, include MPs Kestutis Masiulis, Rimantas Jonas Dagys, Agne Bilotaite, political scientists Vytautas Sinica, Laurynas Kasciunas and others. However, twice as many people have been listed as "collaborators" – this inscription was later removed.

 

The latter column includes the names and photos of President Dalia Grybauskaite, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevicius, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis, MPs Gediminas Kirkilas, Birute Vesaite and others. The website also provides a link to a petition Against Forced Immigration. As of Friday the petition was signed by over 14,000 people.

 

The creators of the website propose that asylum would be granted to refugees in the first safe country they enter. Moreover, the website states that "refugees of conscription age who are residing in EU member states should serve in "foreign legions" and should be deployed to their country of origin to perform a duty to their Homeland".

 

Head of the Communication Division of the Police Department, Ramunas Matonis, said that officers took interest in the content of the website but did not find violations. Meanwhile, according to Chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, Arturas Paulauskas, the website is setting members of the society against each other as it rejects dialogue. He added that the rhetoric of Lithuanian radicals is close to Russian policy.

 






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