In the letter that was sent from Maribor to the address of the television N1, journalist Danica Vučenić threatens to "kill her loved ones" with many insults and insults.
"This is the number of times I receive threats," he told Vreme, "I have the impression that I am wasting my time reporting them to the prosecutor's office at all, because so far they have not done anything."
That the threats have become more frequent especially in the last year and a half, since the protests over the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad have been going on, says the journalist, producer and head of the N1 newsroom. Branislav Sovljanski.
No epilogue to the attack on journalists
"We report all threats to the competent authorities, the prosecutor's office and the police. There are some ongoing processes, but it is literally a negligible number compared to the number of threats we receive. The number of cases that are solved and for which the perpetrators are discovered or punished is literally negligible. There is no epilogue for everything that has been happening in the last period," Šovljanski told "Vreme".
He adds that N1 journalists do not feel safe.
"The most drastic case was that the police patrol was standing a few meters away from our team that was reporting on the ground and did not react at all when a man, who was convicted of attempted murder, broke their camera. The police was standing and watching everything," Sovljanski recalls the incident near Ćaciland in November last year.
Last year, according to the statistics of public prosecutor's offices, was a record for the number of cases filed due to attacks and threats against journalists and the media. In more than half of those cases, the police have not yet submitted the requested information, according to statistics Associations of independent electronic media (ANEM).
Photo: N1Branislav Šovljanski: "We report all threats to the competent authorities, the prosecution and the police"
The Association of Journalists of Serbia warns that as many as 261 attacks on the media were recorded last year, of which 155 were related to protests.
And according to the latest list of the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Serbia is in 104th place in terms of media freedom, which puts it in the category of countries with a "difficult situation".
"Unfortunately, that has become a common practice. It's terrible to even say it, that N1 journalists are used to working in such an atmosphere, that they are used to receiving threats. But that is simply a fact, which does not diminish what is happening and does not diminish the fact that there are no epilogues, results and solutions to those cases," says Sovljanski.
There is still no epilogue for the murders of journalists Slavko Ćuruvija, Dada Vujasinović and Milan Pantić. Just yesterday (June 11), 25 years have passed since the death of Pantić, the correspondent of "Večernje novosti" from Jagodina, who was killed at the entrance of the building where he lived.
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