His mother, Roza Ribičič, née Arrigler[2] or Arigler,[3] was a teacher in Slovene schools in Trieste, and an editor and public figure.

In 1925 the family moved to Rakek, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia), where Ribičič attended elementary school.

Several victims of Communist political persecution accused him of brutal treatment during the time when he was an official with the secret police, including Angela Vode[5] and Ljubo Sirc.

This decision was then appealed by the Prosecutor's Office to the High Court, which also dismissed it as lacking direct evidence, without providing the precise reasoning, but found the basic principles of humanity to be above the prohibition of retroactivity in such a setting.

[10] The historian Jože Dežman, head of the Slovenian commission investigating concealed mass graves, criticised the rejection as "extremely indecent".

[11] Another indictment, based on the presumed newly discovered evidence, was lodged against Ribičič at the Slovenian Prosecutor's Office due to suspected genocide and war crime by the freelance journalist and investigator of post-war killings Roman Leljak [sl] in October 2013, but the Prosecutor's Office dismissed it in December 2013 due to Ribičič's death.