"We came here today to support all journalists in Serbia who are under some kind of attack," TV Nova news director Slobodan Georgiev said at the support rally, adding that every line of behavior had been crossed.
Organized by the Coalition for Media Freedom, on the plateau in front of the Faculty of Philosophy a rally was held in support of Radar journalist Vuk Cvijić, which is two days ago attacked on the street by Milan Lađević, director of the Serbian Telegraph.
The gathering includes journalistic teams, but also many public figures, including DS president Zoran Lutovac, political science faculty professor Đorđe Pavićević, cartoonist Dušan Petričić and TV Nova news director Slobodan Georgiev, and Vuk Cvijić also came, reports Today.
The organizers unfurled a banner in front of the faculty with the inscription "Voices of truth cannot be silenced."
TV Nova news director, Slobodan Georgiev addressed the crowd and emphasized that this is a rally in support of journalist Vuk Cvijić who was attacked, a man who "is a fellow journalist or at least calls himself that."
"We came here today to support all journalists in Serbia who are under some kind of attack," Georgiev said, adding that every line of behavior had been crossed.
"It comes from the top of the government, they promote violence and legitimize it." Free journalism is so necessary to have a free and orderly state. It may sound naive when I say that this has to stop, but we have to put pressure on them because we have no other way. As journalists, we can ask you, as citizens, to support us," emphasized Georgiev.
He pointed out that according to NUNs data, the number of attacks on journalists has increased and added that all those who are here today believe that there is no giving up or retreating because of this.
"Journalists don't like to be the subject and I believe that it is the most difficult for Vuko today," said Georgiev and added that in this case everything is clear and recorded and that they expect the court to issue a verdict, and the authorities to protect themselves from this violence , and if he does not do that, he will consider them accomplices in that violence.
After this meeting, the forum "Attack on Vuk Cvijić - We will not allow him to remain silent" was held in the organization of the weekly Radar and the initiative "It is not philosophical to remain silent".
At the beginning of the forum, the gathered journalists and citizens applauded Vuk Cvijić, the "Radar" journalist who was attacked on Wednesday in the center of Belgrade.
Mališić: This society will disappear in this kind of violence
The chief and responsible editor of the weekly "Radar" Vesna Mališić said at the beginning of the meeting that "this society will disappear in this kind of violence in which we are surrounded."
She said that Vuk Cvijić said that he did not want to speak tonight and that he "doesn't want it to be news".
Speaking about the coverage of the regime media on the attack on Cvijić, Mališić stated that after the attack, "an inversion in the typical manner of the authorities" began.
"Certain media announced that Vuk Cvijić attacked the co-owner of Srpski Telegraf and they started spinning in the other direction," said Mališić, reports Nova.rs.
Prosecutor Savović: We Googled many things
The prosecutor, Bojana Savović, pointed out at the forum that "verbal threats that otherwise last turn into physical ones".
"What worries me is institutional and legal violence." "The absence of a sanction is something that worries me," she said.
"We all as a society Googled a lot of things that we shouldn't have Googled," she added.
Shvarm: Information straight to North Korea
Filip Shvarm, editor-in-chief of the weekly "Vreme", pointed out that "we all know where the violence in our country is broadcast from."
He pointed out that tabloids "are not for reading in a public place".
"Unfortunately, this society has succumbed to that poison and we came in revolt," he said.
Švarm pointed out that in Serbia we have "information that is equal to North Korea" at work.
"There are only two themes - the glorification of the cult of the great leader and the hunt for traitors." That's our information and that's how our children grow up," Švarm said.
"As long as there are people like Wolf it makes some sense." "Not that I strongly condemn the attack on Cvijić, but I will continue to write about it until there is justice in this country," he added.
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