Bullmastiff Affair

 Bullmastiff Affair (deep event,  scandal)

Date	February, 2010
Location	Ljubljana,  Slovenia
Deaths	1
Description	A Slovenian doctor, who regularly treated government ministers, found naked and fatally mauled by his dogs in highly suggestive circumstances

The Bullmastiff Affair (or Baričević affair) is an incident in which a Slovenian doctor, who regularly treated country's elite including government ministers, was fatally mauled by his dogs.

History

On February 2, 2010, media reported a respected medical doctor named Saša Baričević, who regularly treated country's elite including government ministers, was killed by his own dogs. The three Bullmastiffs were well known to the Slovenian public from events a few years earlier, when they attacked and severely injured a bypasser on a street. Although at that time the dogs were at first determined to be too dangerous to be kept alive, the Administrative Court, with judge Boštan Zalar, the brother of a minister of justice Aleš Zalar, ruled that the dogs should be returned to Baričević.

Exposure

On February 5, 2010, Požareport published an article that the police officers found a dildo with a condom near Baričević's dead body. According to Požareport, the article was viewed more than a million times, which makes it the most read article in the history of Slovenia. This claim has not been disputed. Autopsy details have been released on the Internet.

The article published a crime scene photo, secretly taken by a police officer, showing a mutilated human body, a plastic penis nearby, and an alive dog, which was visibly bloody around its anus. It also published numerous details, leaked from the police investigation, including the Baričević's last words, when the police found him naked and still alive. The article also stated that for decades Saša Baričević had been a transgender female. In subsequent weeks, the police carried out internal investigation to find a person who leaked the crime scene photographs to Požareport.

In several subsequent articles, Požareport described the friendship between Saša Baričević and Slovenia's minister of interior Katarina Kresal and her domestic partner attorney Miro Senica. Articles suspected that there was another person in a garage besides Baričević's dogs. The morning after the tragedy, Minister of Interior unexpectedly did not appear at the weekly government meeting, she reported that she was skiing in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and a few days later she appeared with a bandaged arm. Media published photos from the crime scene of the morning after the Baričević's death, showing Ministry of Agriculture State Secretary Sonja Bukovec crying and hugging a sister of Baričević. Sonja Bukovec (against whom charges have also been filed), played an important role in returning the bulldogs to Baričević. In the parliament, a motion of no confidence (called interpellation in Slovenia) was initiated against the Minister of Agriculture Milan Pogačnik for numerous irregularities in the events related to Baričević's dogs and the minister resigned. DNA of all three dogs was found on the condom.

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Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Fotopub affair	“the left-wing cultural and political cream moved to the Smodej – Uranjek sex orgy affair after the bullmastiff garage affair [...] the publication of the list of those who indulged in these orgies, in which minors were also allegedly abused, would bring down this government!.”	Vinko Vasle	2022

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