The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) announced today that it has sent a misdemeanor and criminal complaint to the Ministry of the Interior for writing disturbing graffiti targeting television presenter Zoran Kesić and Belgrade roses.
The graffiti reads "1. 11. 2024 Zoran Kesić Show must go on".
As Kesić himself interprets the message of the graffiti for Danas, it refers to the sentence he uttered at a performance in Sarajevo on November 1: "The show must go on for those of us who remain, who grieve for the victims and hope for the speedy recovery of the injured, but who also insist on responsibility".
Organized action
In the ANEM report, signed by ANEM Board President Veran Matić, it was stated that the work was "obviously carried out in a group since at least 200 graffiti were written with a stencil only on the stretch from Slavija to Kalemegdan in a very short period of time."
It is added that, in addition, in dozens of places in Vračar, the Old Town and New Belgrade, graffiti of a size of several square meters or a length of tens of meters was written, as well as that graffiti was written in Kralja Milana Street, on the building of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, at Andrić's endowment, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, at the entrance to the Terazije Tunnel and the villa at Njegoševa 20.
The application states that graffiti writing was first noticed on December 26, 2024, and that Kesić reported the case on December 31.
It is said that this is an apparently large operation whose goal is to destroy property, desecrate the city and harass Zoran Kesić and his family.
The announcement insists that the investigation in this case be carried out urgently, in order to stop the writing of graffiti, and the perpetrators to be appropriately punished.
And the Independent Association of Journalists (NUNS) has announced that it will report this case to the authorities.
This year's attacks
Stating that the year has just begun, NUNS indicated that it has already registered several incidents against journalists - in addition to serious death threats to the authors of the show "Good, Bad, Evil" Nenad Kulačin and Marko Vidojković, media attacks on journalist Dink Gruhonjić and members of his family, as well as on colleague Darko Speer.
Threats to journalists, media attacks on them, as well as media publication of personal data of individuals, directly violate the laws of Serbia, including the Criminal Code, the Law on Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Public Information and Media, as well as the Code of Journalists of Serbia, he pointed out. NUNS.
The association appealed to the competent institutions to urgently investigate and prosecute threats and attacks against journalists, as well as all those responsible for the misuse of students' personal data and consequently endangering their safety.
Source: FoNet