Marko's and Sinisa's photos are all over Sombor: "City is tense, but not because of migrants"

Imagine waking up one morning and finding out that the whole city is plastered with your pictures, as a traitor of the country.

This, among other things, happened to Marko Spisak and Sinisa Sevo, whose photos are all over Sombor, along with the message that reads, "Residents of Sombor, these are your neighbors who illegally rent accommodation to migrants. For their own gain, they participate in amassing them in your city."

The same day, Marko and Sinisa received hundreds of messages, and family members immediately called worried that something might happen to them. Considering that, as he says, he does not even rent accommodation to migrants, Marko was additionally surprised.

"I cooperate with hotels regarding the purchase of coffee and drinks. Personally, I have nothing against migrants, but I don't deal with their accommodation. The atmosphere in Sombor is very tense, but precisely because of these 'people's patrols', not because of anyone else. They are constantly saying, 'Migrants will attack your children, migrants will attack your wives', and yet, migrants have been here for six years and none of that has happened," Marko Spisak told Telegraf.rs.

He says he feels very bad about his photo being abused in such an ugly context and that people are getting incited to hatred and violence.

"I read comments below our pictures on social networks. They write that we should be hanged on trees in Sombor, and that we should be killed like 'treasonous sh*ts'. What can I tell you... None of the Sombor residents has anything to do with whether migrants come to the city and stay here. And even if someone did, is that a reason to publicly call for lynching people," Marko wonders.

Sinisa Sevo, on the other hand, has a registered hostel and, he adds, no one has been staying in it for 20 days. Sinisa, like Marko, lives in fear, both for his own safety and for the safety of those who would be his guests.

"I did provide accommodation to migrants, I even gave free accommodation to pregnant women and mothers with children whenever they needed it and I don't regret it. These are people who are in transit here, none of them intend to stay in Serbia and live here. I feel for the refugees and if I can, I will always help them," says Sevo.

He says that he feels terrible because of the photos now plastered around the city, and that his son is already being asked questions about it at school.

"We lived peacefully in Sombor, and look at this now. They say that Sombor is unsafe because of the migrants, yet here we are in fear only because of those," concluded Sevo.

They say that the police have already taken certain actions, and they will also file criminal complaints. Employees in the migrant camp in Sombor are also afraid of the People's Patrol, and have for that reason been going to the city in civilian clothes for a while now.

"We didn't dare go in our uniforms, because these people are constantly making threats and we simply didn't feel safe outside the camp. We went secretly, dressed as civilians," one of the employees tells our portal.

We forwarded some questions to the People's Patrol as well, but have not received any response yet.

(Telegraf.rs)