Two men were arrested for threatening Brankica Stanković. Three are being sought, while hundreds of other cases of attacks on journalists await the epilogue
The third basic public prosecutor's office in Belgrade ordered the police to detain five suspects for endangering the safety of the journalist Brankice Stankovic, chief and responsible editor of Insider television.
Retention was determined for DM (26), RR (40), SS (34), OI (27) and AN (27).
They are suspected that on June 6, 2023, during the basketball match between Partizan and Olimpija Cedevita in the Belgrade Arena, they chanted songs with offensive and threatening content addressed to Brankica Stanković, thereby endangering her safety.
The police found two suspects, DM and R.R, for whom a detention order was issued. The remaining three are on the run and a search has been launched for them.
DM and RR will be questioned on November 12, while the police have been ordered to intensively search for the other suspects, the prosecution announced.
The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) welcomed the decision of the Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office to order the detention and interrogation of suspects for endangering the security of Brankica Stanković.
ANEM submitted a report to the competent prosecutor's office after insulting and threatening content was heard chanting against the journalist at the match between Partizan and Olimpija Cedevita on June 6, 2023.
"Even though the arrest of several suspects for endangering the security of Brankica Stanković was delayed, I think it is very important that the Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office recognized the danger of attacks on journalists and reacted as soon as a wider social context was created for it," said the president of ANEM's Board of Directors, Veran Matić.
He added that it is important that other applications that have not been resolved for years be processed in the same way.
"It is important that independent state institutions, such as the prosecutor's office and the police, send a message to all those who threatened and threatened journalists that such behavior is punishable and that all those responsible for attacks and intimidation will be sanctioned," said Matić.
According to ANEM data, from the beginning of the year to November 2, 269 threats, attacks, pressures and cases of preventing the work of journalists and activists were recorded. According to the records of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, during the first nine months of 2026, 111 cases were filed for endangering the safety of journalists, which is 18 percent more than in the same period last year. Conviction verdicts were handed down in only three cases, while 66 are still in the phase of collecting the necessary information.
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) recorded 216 cases of threats to journalists in the first ten months of this year, seven more than in the same period in 2025. Election day, October 25, is particularly noteworthy, when 21 cases were recorded, while 63 cases of threats to journalists were recorded during the election campaign. UNS also registered 64 threats, 45 cases of work disruption and 29 physical attacks.
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