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ĐORĐEVIĆ v. CROATIA JUDGMENT
38. On 25 May 2010 the Zagreb Municipality State Attorney’s Office
informed the applicants’ lawyer that it had no jurisdiction in the matter since
the complaints concerned children who were not criminally responsible.
39. On 26 May 2010 the headmaster of A.K. primary school informed
the applicants’ lawyer that the school authorities had taken all measures
they deemed appropriate, such as discussion with the pupils concerned and
the provision of information to all parents at parent-teacher meetings about
the problems the applicants had encountered with the pupils.
40. On 31 May 2010 the Ombudswoman for Children informed the
applicants’ counsel that she had no jurisdiction in the matter.
41. A medical report in respect of the first applicant drawn up on
29 June 2010 indicates that he had continually been attacked by children in
the neighbourhood.
42. Medical reports in respect of the first applicant drawn up on 29 June,
25 October and 24 November 2010 and 9 February 2011 indicate that the
first applicant had continually been attacked by children in the
neighbourhood.
43. On 1 July 2010 the police interviewed P.B., a pupil attending A.K.
primary school, about the incidents of 13 and 14 May 2010, in which he
denied his involvement.
44. The applicants alleged that on 13 July 2010 at 9 p.m. four boys and a
girl made repeated lewd comments in a loud voice under the applicants’
window. When the second applicant asked them to be quiet they replied
provocatively, using the Serbian dialect in direct allusion to the applicants’
Serbian origin, telling her: “Call the police, we are not afraid [zovi bre
policiju, mi se ne bojimo]”. The second applicant reported this incident on
14 July 2010 to a social worker from the Susedgrad Social Welfare Centre,
Ms J.S.
45. On 19 July 2010 the Susedgrad Social Welfare Centre interviewed
V.K., who lived in the same block of flats as the applicants. She denied her
involvement in the harassment of the applicants. She also said that children
and alcoholics frequently gathered at the bench in front of the block of flats
where she lived and made screaming noises, which irritated her family as
well.
46. On 2 August 2010 the Susedgrad Social Welfare Centre informed
the police that the second applicant had complained of continued
harassment and violence against the first applicant. The police were asked to
take appropriate measures.
47. On 26 August 2010 the police interviewed Z.B., a pupil attending
A.K. primary school, who denied any involvement in the harassment of the
first applicant.
48. On 27 August 2010 the second applicant asked the Zagreb
Municipality for the wooden bench beneath the applicants’ window to be
removed.