Serbian journalist attacked in Berlin: Hate crime in front of mute observers

Serbian journalist Natalija Miletić, who has lived and worked in Berlin, it's brutal on June 9th attacked in the Prenzlauer Berg area while riding a bicycle. An unknown middle-aged person grabbed the steering wheel of her bicycle, accused her of riding on the sidewalk, then hurled a series of xenophobic insults at her, yelling "f***ing foreigners!".

Miletić was knocked to the asphalt and suffered serious bodily injuries - a broken lower leg and a broken hand. Although, as she states, she called for help in great pain, several passers-by passed by her and decided not to react.

 

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"It was humiliating. It was inhuman," Miletić wrote in her social media post from her hospital bed, where she is awaiting two more surgeries.

She points out that she's still trying to figure out what's worse — that she was the victim of a hate crime or that the people around her didn't show an iota of compassion. "Berlin, we have a problem. And we need to talk about it," she said in her post. The attack happened not far from her apartment.

He is awaiting two operations, the first scheduled for Thursday

Miletić tells "Vreme" that the same attacker attacked her a few months ago, but that then it was nowhere near as brutal as seven days ago.

"I know that man. I've seen him around, he attacked me once before, but I don't know who he is. Now he attacked me again, he jumped on my steering wheel while I was on a bicycle in motion. Then came the volleys of insults because I'm a foreigner," said Miletić.

She adds that it took her a week to find the strength to formulate the incident that happened to her and which resulted in a very serious injury.

"I have two more operations waiting for me, the first one is on Thursday," said Vremen's interlocutor, adding that what happened to her is a topic she has written a lot about.

"I dealt with xenophobia, hatred directed towards foreigners and was many times in a situation where I had to defend various people from such attacks, and now I found myself in such a situation," says Natalija.

Megatrend exposed

Natalija Miletić has been working in Germany for fifteen years as a journalist and producer.

She collaborated with Deutsche Welle, wrote for Peščanik, and the stories in which she participated were published in the most respected magazines in the world, such as Time.

She researched the doctorate of former minister Nebojša Stefanović and discovered that the Megatrend faculty has a network of fake faculties in Europe, consisting only of mailboxes.

When she asked Aleksandar Vučić about this in 2014 during a visit to Angela Merkel, she was attacked by the regime's media and the Serbian Embassy in Germany denied her accreditation.

Miletić lives in Berlin.