Anti-semitic jokes printed on sugar satchets in Croatia!
Hitler's image, anti-Semitic joke printed on sugar sachet in Croatian town
Feb 16, 2007 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- [Annoucer] Masters of advertising may be particularly creative and original, but sometimes people with warped values are involved in this business. In some cafes in Gospic [central Croatia] you can get sugar sachets with your cup of coffee, among other things, bearing the picture of Adolf Hitler and a black humour joke about the killing of the Jews.
[Reporter] It is completely normal if you order a coffee in a cafe that you get a sugar sachet with it. The Pozega-based firm Pink printed funny jokes on its sugar sachets, one of which has caused a stir in Gospic. In addition to the picture of the Nazi leader Hitler, the sachet bears an inappropriate anti-Semitic joke. Cafe owners have refrained from commenting on funny jokes printed on the sachets, because - as they said - they have neither written nor printed them; they only order sugar from their suppliers. [Nikola Vukic-Beli, cafe owner] I do not know what you have, but I know from my colleagues that nobody has ordered anything of this kind. [Reporter] As soon as cafe owners were warned about the inappropriate anti-Semitic and Nazi messages on sugar sachets they withdrew them from circulation. [Passage omitted: Gospic citizens interviewed, find the joke unacceptable] [Reporter] We tried to interview someone at the Pink firm, but they were not ready to make a statement for Croatian TV. Given that this kind of thing, even in the form of a joke, is prohibited by law in Croatia, now is the turn for the State Prosecutor's Office to react.
Source: HRT1 TV, Zagreb, in Croatian 1830 gmt 16 Feb 07
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