Croatia

Croatia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Since 2006, Croatia has been implementing 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 inter-agency "Protocol on Monitoring Hate Crimes", establishing state authorities' responsibilities in addressing hate crime and re-creating a dedicated Working Group. 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 crime are regularly published by the Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities of the Government. 

Hate crime data collection in Croatia
Support for hate crime victims in Croatia

OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
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 2019 Data

    The data recorded by the police may include criminal offences of incitement to hatred, which fall outside the OSCE definition of hate crime. The reported prosecution figures consist of cases in which an indictment was filed and include cases initiated during the previous years.

Hate crime recorded by police

The police numbers represent the number of recorded offences. One incident can involve more than one offence.

National developments

The Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities, together with the Judicial Academy, carried out set of hate crimes workshops for members of the judiciary, police, prosecuting authorities and civil society organizations. During the workshops, participants studied the relevant case of the European Court of Human Rights, notably Šečić v. Croatia and Škorjanec v. Croatia, as well as Balázs v. Hungary, Grigoryan and Sergeyeva v. Ukraine, Milanović v. Serbia, Nachova and Others v. Bulgaria, among others. In 2019, a second round of workshops were carried out for 109 participants. In order to improve the hate crime data collection system, the Working Group on the Drafting of the Protocol on Hate Crime began drafting a New Protocol, which should be adopted by the end of 2020. The New Protocol on Hate Crime aims to ensure the collection of relevant statistical data, while also: defining the obligations of individual institutions dealing with hate crime; determining the responsibilities of the competent authorities involved in detecting, treating and monitoring the results of procedures conducted in hate crime cases; and defining specific forms for statistical collecting data on hate crime cases.

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2019-08 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
UNHCR
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2019-09 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-11 Attacks against property
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-12 Attacks against property
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Attacks against property
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-01 Attacks against property
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-07 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-05 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-07 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-05 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-04 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
UNHCR
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2019-01 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-02 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-04 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-01 Violent attacks against people
UNHCR
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2019-06 Attacks against property
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-02 Violent attacks against people
UNHCR
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2019-06 Violent attacks against people
UNHCR
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2019-08 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
UNHCR
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2019-08 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-10 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-02 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-04 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-10 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-02 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-03 Threats
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2019-08 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
UNHCR
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2019-08 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-08 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019 Violent attacks against people
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2019-05 Attacks against property
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2019-02 Attacks against property
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2019-06 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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Anti-Roma hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2019-03 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-07 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-05 Attacks against property
Croatian civil society coalition
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Other hate crime based on religion or belief

Date Type of incident Source Description
2019-01 Threats
Croatian civil society coalition
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Anti-LGBTI hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2019-07 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-06 Violent attacks against people
Lesbian Organization Rijeka - LORI
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2019-11 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-11 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-05 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-05 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-02 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-10 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-10 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-05 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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2019-07 Violent attacks against people
Croatian civil society coalition
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-Roma hate crime

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers published relevant recommendations in its "Decision adopted at the 1377th meeting, on execution of the Court's judgments."

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that Croatia has not made public hate crime data disaggregated by bias motivation.