Croatia

Croatia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR.

Since 2006, Croatia has implemented ODIHR's Law Enforcement Outreach Programme (LEOP) followed by the updated Training Against Hate Crime for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme.

In 2021, the government adopted an updated inter-agency "Protocol for Procedure in Cases of Hate Crime", establishing state authorities' responsibilities in addressing hate crime and revised the responsibilities of the dedicated Working Group for monitoring hate crimes. In 2021, the Working Group participated in ODIHR's diagnostic workshop to assess national structures and services for hate crime victim support, resulting in a set of ODIHR recommendations to the relevant state authorities. Data on hate crimes are regularly published by the Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities (OHRRNM).

Hate crime data collection in Croatia
Support for hate crime victims in Croatia
Hate crime capacity building in Croatia
Croatia's hate crime legislation 
Download the 2011 hate crime report for Croatia

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2023 85 33 9
2022 80 24 14
2021 101 57 11
2020 87 138 18
2019 48 117 10
2018 33 23 8
2017 25 16 12
2016 35 37 7
2015 24 27 7
2014 22 60 6
2013 35 57 8
2012 17 19 15
2011 57 20 10
2010 34 34 3
2009 32 Not available Not available

About 2011 Data

    Figures includes crimes of incitement to hatred and discrimination.

Hate crime recorded by police

National developments

The Working Group for Hate Crime, a multidisciplinary working group supported by the Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, adopted a new Protocol on Hate Crime. This Protocol aims to ensure better co-ordination between all levels of the criminal justice system (police, prosecutors and judges) for responding to and recording hate crimes.

A new criminal code introducing new provisions on hate crime was adopted by Parliament in October 2011, with an effective date of 1 January 2012. While the previous provisions only included a general definition of hate crime that was applied to convictions for bias-motivated crime, the new provisions specifically cite bias motivation as an aggravating circumstance for all crimes, except for specific crimes that already provide for bias motivation in its aggravated form. Those provisions include murder, female genital mutilation, crimes involving bodily injury, sexual assualt, coercion, threats, inciting riots and public incitement to violence and hatred.

KEY OBSERVATION

No information is available.

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY CIVIL SOCIETY

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The UN Human Rights Council encouraged Croatia to continue its efforts to create specially trained police units to investigate hate crimes, which have resulted in an increase in the investigation of hate crimes.