The High Court in Belgrade obliged the defendant "Informer" to pay damages to the students Lazar and Luka Stojaković and to publish the introduction and sentence of the verdict. This is only the first judgment passed in connection with the publication of the passport, while proceedings against other media outlets are still ongoing.
"From the moment their passports were made public, their lives." Lazarus and Luke they are irreversibly changed for the worse. There is no court decision that can completely erase the consequences of such targeting in today's social and political climate," commented the lawyer of the injured parties, Isa Spahović, on the verdict.
The list of people who have sued "Informer" for spreading lies, slander and insults is endless. Although it regularly loses in court because of this, this tabloid does not underestimate the established practice and does not demand fines. With the founding of the eponymous television, the insulting and slanderous volleys of editor-in-chief Dragan J. Vučićević became even more heinous.
Thus, the Court of Appeal in Belgrade confirmed in 2018 that this tabloid published incorrect information and thus injured the honor and reputation of the then BIRN editor Slobodan Georgiev. Due to the publication of untruths on the front page of the Informer and on pages two and three of that paper, in the text entitled "They wanted to steal 23.200.000 euros", in which it is claimed that the EU gives millions for the work of BIRN, which then blackmails the budget money to a company from the EU, Dragan J. Vučićević he had to pay a fine.
We also know the verdicts that Dragan Đilas received against this tabloid, due to offensive and slanderous texts. The High Court in Belgrade ruled that the editor of the Informer caused damage to Dragan Đilas by calling him a tycoon who, while he was the mayor of Belgrade, robbed children, that he swindled with businessmen by allegedly fixing the price of renting a kindergarten in Altina through the hunchback of the people.
Nova TV journalist Jelena Obučina sued and won "Infomer" on several occasions because he spread lies about her, slandered her and called her derogatory names.
Zator saga
The saga of the editor of Informer about going to prison because he did not want to pay the fine for insulting Jugoslav Ćosič, who sued him and won in court because, among other things, he called him a "Shiptar mercenary" and invented that he receives money from the side, outside of his journalistic work, is well known, NUNS wrote.
The High Court in Belgrade also ruled in the case of the lawsuit filed by the then editor of RTS, Olivera Kovačević. Vučićević was obliged by the verdict to remove from the portal informer.rs the texts under the headings "Yellow Olja brings Kesić: Kidnapped state, RTS tailored exactly to B92!", "Public service rapes the public of Serbia: Yellow 'journalists' from RTS are preparing a revolution", "Yellow Olja's hypocrisy: She spat on Korać while he was alive, and praised him dead at the commemoration!" and "Borko through the chest: Convinced that he will be prime minister, he banned Ken from the yellow Olja!".
Vučićević was also found guilty of violating the ban on hate speech following a lawsuit filed by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights due to the text "War on Foreign Mercenaries", calling in it to "once and for all stand in the way of organizations like the Soros-Shiptar-fascist Youth Initiative for Human Rights."
Vučićević was punished for the lies he published about Veran Matić in texts from August 2014 to the end of January 2015. Saša Paunović sued him for the article about the "heist of the century" in which it is stated that as the president of the municipality of Paraćin he stole "over 100 million", and Vučićević's lawyer immediately admitted in court that everything was made up and that they acted unprofessionally.
There is almost no opposition leader who has not repeatedly sued and won the Informer and its owner in court.
Incredible insults
The court process that perhaps best illustrates the way Dragan J. Vučićević works and thinks is the one initiated against him by journalist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Dinko Gruhonjić.
Namely, Gruhonjić won a court case against the tabloid "Informer" because of the insult and pejorative nickname "Sabahudin", which the journalists of this paper used every time they wrote about him.
The problem is that this "nickname" dates back to 2005 and was attributed to him by neo-Nazis from the National Machine, who threatened Gruhonjic and his ancestor. During the entire process, Vučićević tried to prove that Dinko's real name was Sabahudin. Gruhonjić was forced to provide the prosecution with a birth certificate, as well as other documents, and after it was determined that it was not his name, the owner of "Informer" applied another tactic on the last day of the trial.
The cover of "Informer" that stands out in particular is the one with a clip from a porn film, which Vučićević claimed was the then president of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar Kitarović. Turns out it wasn't. The same as the wife of Vuk Jeremic, Nataša Jeremic, is not the leader of the drug cartel in Serbia, as Vučićević claimed.
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