BHL was in the Serbian capital to present his film about the Kurds, called Peshmerga.
According to Tanjug, militants of a Serbian communist group called SKOJ intended to highlight BHL’s role during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. BHL then vigorously denounced the siege of Sarajevo by Serbian forces and had been an important voice in the West against the regime of the strong man of Belgrade Slobodan Milosevic.
While BHL was speaking to the audience at the Beldoks Documentary Festival on Wednesday, a young man ran past him and threw a cake in his face. Two others, claiming to be from SKOJ, shouted: “Assassin, leave Belgrade!”
According to Tanjug. “This man worked to bomb Yugoslavia, eight years before the NATO strikes” against Serbia in 1999, they told the public.
Bernard-Henri Lévy struck one of the militants with his jacket and launched in French: “Long live democracy in Belgrade”. The SKOJ militants were then evacuated by the security service in the room.
Many Serbs continue to blame BHL for his support for Bosnian Muslims during the conflict in the former Yugoslav republic, which killed more than 100 000 people between 1992 and 1995.
Many recall BHL’s responsibilities in the balkanization of Yugoslavia, as well as his first-person involvement in the meetings between the leader of the Libyan rebels Mahmoud Jibril and French President Sarkozy, who then triggered the destabilization of that country after the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, and contributed to the deluge of migrants to the EU.
And many still recall only a few months after the war in Libya, his calls against Bashar Al Assad from Parisian salons imploring the French government to act militarily, for a “humanitarian intervention” in Syria. Interviewed by Laurence Ferrari on Itélé in 2015, Levy stated that “ISIS was born because of the power exercised by Bashar Al Assad.”
He supported the so-called “democratic rebels”, largely confined to the terrorist lines of Al Nusra and the Islamic State waging an assault on a popular and democratically elected secular head of state.
And neither will anti-globalists forget his parades in Kiev, Ukraine, after the Maidan insurgency to support a coup against the “Vladimir Putin satellite government”.