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Rightists are Nazis and Nazis should be killed.


Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perkovic and fans perform pro-Nazi salute
at massive concert


Fans attend a concert by Marko Perkovic, the right-wing singer notorious
for his perceived sympathy for Croatia's World War II pro-Nazi puppet
regime, in Zagreb, Croatia, Saturday, July 5, 2025. (AP Photo)ASSOCIATED
PRESS

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A hugely popular right-wing Croatian singer and
hundreds of thousands of his fans performed a pro-Nazi World War II salute
at a massive concert in Zagreb, drawing criticism.

One of Marko Perkovic's most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used
by Croatia's Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at
the time.

Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic
war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”

The 1990s conflict erupted when rebel minority Serbs, backed by neighboring Serbia, took up guns, intending to split from Croatia and unite with
Serbia.

Perkovic’s immense popularity in Croatia reflects prevailing nationalist sentiments in the country 30 years after the war ended.

The WWII Ustasha troops in Croatia brutally killed tens of thousands of
Serbs, Jews, Roma and antifascist Croats in a string of concentration camps
in the country. Despite documented atrocities, some nationalists still view
the Ustasha regime leaders as founders of the independent Croatian state.

Organizers said that half a million people attended Perkovic's concert in
the Croatian capital. Video footage aired by Croatian media showed many
fans displaying pro-Nazi salutes earlier in the day.

The salute is punishable by law in Croatia, but courts have ruled Perkovic
can use it as part of his song, the Croatian state television HRT said.

Perkovic has been banned from performing in some European cities over
frequent pro-Nazi references and displays at his gigs.

Croatia's Vecernji List daily wrote that the concert's “supreme
organization” has been overshadowed by the use of the salute of a regime
that signed off on “mass executions of people.”

Regional N1 television noted that whatever the modern interpretations of
the salute may be its roots are “undoubtedly” in the Ustasha regime era.

N1 said that while “Germans have made a clear cut" from anything Nazi-
related “to prevent crooked interpretations and the return to a dark past
... Croatia is nowhere near that in 2025.”

In neighboring Serbia, populist President Aleksandar Vucic criticized Perkovic's concerts as a display “of support for pro-Nazi values.” Former Serbian liberal leader Boris Tadic said it was a “great shame for Croatia"
and "the European Union” because the concert “glorifies the killing of
members of one nation, in this case Serbian.”

Croatia joined the EU in 2013.

Croatian police said Perkovic's concert was the biggest ever in the country
and an unseen security challenge, deploying thousands of officers.

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CLEVELAND -- A serial rapist has been sentenced to life in prison with a
first chance for parole in 36 years, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy
J. McGinty said.

On June 2, a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury found Moses Clark
guilty of three counts each of rape and kidnapping for a string of
vicious attacks that took place in October of 2006.

Each count also included gun specifications. Common Pleas Court Judge
Shannon Gallagher subsequently found Clark guilty of being a Sexually
Violent Predator.

Judge Gallagher handed Clark, 65, of Cleveland, a life sentence with no eligibility for parole until 2051.

"Serial rapists like Moses Clark have no business walking around in our community, and now, he'll never enjoy another day of freedom," said
Assistant County Prosecutor Maxwell Martin, who represented the State of
Ohio in this case along with Assistant County Prosecutors Edward Brydle
and Lindsay Raskin. "His repeated victimization of women in our
community has come to an end."

Clark attacked and raped three women in October of 2006.

The first victim of Clark's rampage was an 18-year-old woman who he
abducted at gunpoint and drove to the parking lot of a church on Central
Avenue in Cleveland where he raped her.

A week later, Clark forced a 19-year-old woman to get into his car by threatening her with a gun. He took her to the same church and raped
her.

For the final attack, Clark and another man forced a 20-year-old woman
into a car at gunpoint. They took her to an abandoned house on Addison
Avenue, where she was held down and raped.

All three women went to hospitals for treatment and the collection of
evidence. It was this evidence, when tested as part of Ohio Attorney
General Mike DeWine's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, which implicated
Clark.

At the time of the 2006 rapes, Clark was on parole following a 1989
conviction for rape. He was returned to prison on a parole violation in
2008, and was about to be released in January of this year when
investigation by the Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit Task Force led
to his indictment on the 2006 charges.

"Throughout this entire process, Mr. Clark has never shown any remorse
for his actions," said Martin. "Even today at sentencing, he was
defaming the women he attacked and feigning innocence."

"He wanted the court to believe that his three victims — who had never
met each other — not only concocted stories that were amazingly similar,
but somehow managed to end up in hospital emergency rooms with his DNA
in them. Judge Gallagher did not buy these outrageous lies, and now Mr.
Clark will spend the rest of his life paying the price of his
unforgivable conduct."

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/serial-rapist-moses-cla rk-gets-life-sentence/95-314888943

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CLEVELAND -- According to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a pair
of brutal serial rapists has been indicted by the Grand Jury for attacks
on seven women.

Derrick Lartdale, 48, was charged with the rapes of three women, all of
them involving home invasions, two in August of 1995 and one in May of
1996. The Grand Jury indicted him on four counts of rape, three counts
of kidnapping, one count of felonious sexual penetration and 10 counts
of aggravated burglary.

Nathan Ford, 48, was charged with the rapes of four women, one in 1995,
one in 1998 and two in 2000. The Grand Jury indicted him on five counts
of rape, five counts of kidnapping, two counts of felonious assault and
one count of aggravated robbery.

DNA evidence that led to these indictments was discovered in rape kits collected from the victims at the time of the attacks and tested as part
of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.

That testing and follow-up investigative work by the Cuyahoga County
Sexual Assault Kit Task Force has now led to the indictment of 357
defendants.

In each of the attacks for which Lartdale has just been indicted, he
broke into homes and told his victims - ages 19, 16 and 23 - that he was
armed and threatened them if they resisted. When the mother of one
victim interrupted Lartdale's assault, he dragged the victim outside and
raped her in a neighboring yard.

Ford grabbed three of his four victims off the street, using a gun in
one instance and choke holds in two to force them to submit. His fourth
attack took place in a bathroom at Cleveland State University where he
hit his victim in the head and forced her into a stall.

"Nathan Ford and Derrick Lartdale were true scourges upon the people of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County," said Assistant County Prosecutor Brett
Kyker, manager of the Sexual Assault Kit Task Force. "They are predators
in every sense of the word who terrorized the women they attacked, in
the crimes detailed in these indictments and far too many others."

Both men are currently serving lengthy prison sentences for previous
sexual assaults.


Lartdale is serving a 62-year sentence after being convicted in 1998 on
two counts of Rape, one count of Attempted Rape, two counts of
Aggravated Burglary and two counts of Attempted Aggravated Burglary.

He is incarcerated at the Mansfield Correctional Institution.

Ford, a former Lake County probation officer, was convicted in 2006 of
raping eight different women, including a 13-year-old girl and
55-year-old schoolteacher. He is serving a 113-year sentence at the
Trumbull Correctional Institution.

"Some people might ask why we would prosecute cases against two men who
are already facing many decades in prison," said Kyker.

"The answer is that the victims of these men, the seven women who
survived their brutal attacks but still bear the scars, deserve their
day in court and deserve justice. They deserve an acknowledgement of the
crimes that were committed against them, and the people of Ohio and
Cuyahoga County need to hold their rapists accountable."

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cuyahoga-county/two-serial-rapist s-indicted-for-attacks-on-seven-women/95-109578347

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