Residents of micro-Liberlenda experiencing friction with the border police of Croatia

Microstates Liberlend , located on a piece of no man's land between Croatia and Serbia, not having to form , have столкнулось problems from the border states . In fact, now River Island area of ​​7 square kilometers It is under the control of Croatia. It was the beginning of its police force last week to delay the freedom of citizens of the border crossing attempts.

Access to the sweet air of freedom Croatian authorities overlap, since neither its officials, nor their colleagues from neighboring Serbia do not like the activity that unfolded around the draw of the island. It is a "tie" state, or, in the terminology of international law, the status of «terra nullius» from the 90s - after the tragic events in the Balkans led to the alteration of the boundaries.

Wit Edichka (Vit Jedlička) / official page Liberlend i>

The founder of the state and its first president Wit Edichka (Vit Jedlička), in April announced the establishment of the republic, was arrested on 12 April Croatian police and spent the night in the department. The detention took place at a time when Edichka trying to get into their "country" on foot, returning from a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia. This company Fox News said the initiative group calling itself «Liberland Press Agency» (LSA).



Recorded in the official blog Liberlenda states that "it was more than a friendly visit, rather than detention." However, Edichke had to spend the night at the police station, from which he was released only the next morning.

And after a week of Croatia police arrested 12 people who tried to get to the island in three small boats. Pressing the boat to the shore, the police arrested all liberlendovtsev for "illegal border crossing" and imposed a fine.



President Liberlenda suitable boat to the country from Serbia / Liberland Times i>

However, neither the founder of the state or its citizens are optimistic and determined. Their legal counsel, Professor Thomas Bell of Chepmenskogo University, explains that this area, in international law, is in a terra nullius, and project participants just want to get on the ground that no one wants. LSA Group alleges that the detention of people violates the 49th article of the fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the forcible deportation.

President mikrostrany new claims that have already received more than 300,000 applications for citizenship. The интервью edition Telegraf he said that already prepared a draft of the land border with Croatia. In addition, he said, several investors from the banking and IT-sector are ready to cash infusion into the self-proclaimed country in the amount of $ 20 billion.

Also Edichka told some details about his life. His father built gas stations in the Czech Republic, but after a sharp rise in interest on loans in 2007 declared himself bankrupt. Edichka Liberlend moved in with his wife and plans to have a child there. His idol - Frederic Bastiat , a French liberal economist, a supporter of free trade, who wrote, in particular, labor & quot; Act & quot ;, who inspired Edichku on its activities. Bastiat belong to the expression "state - a vast fiction by which everybody is trying to live at the expense of others" and "Tax - a robbery of the law».

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, in an interview with Fox News explained that it is not considering seriously liberlendovtsev claims to the territory, and believe everything that happens is "essentially a joke."

Source: geektimes.ru/post/250782/