Elezioni locali serbe: molti hanno denunciato attacchi a giornalisti e cittadini mentre la polizia serba protegge teppisti/teppisti sponsorizzati dal governo.

Full Translation:

There are more and more physical attacks on journalists and citizens in local governments in Serbia, where local elections are being held today, and the behavior of the police on this occasion is unacceptable, the journalistic part of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG) announced.

The most drastic case is the one in Šarbanovac near Bor, where the brutally beaten journalists of Revolta- Lazar Dinić and Ivan Bjelić, and journalist Zorica Popović received two blows to the stomach. Several students were also attacked.

“Bjelica, who was detained earlier in the day by the police for what they said was an arrest warrant for him, was attacked by a group of unknown persons with blows on his body and head, which was filmed by Dinic, after which they attacked him. In an attempt to escape, he fell into the Timok River where he was beaten and forced to shout “Aca President”. The first images show head injuries in both of them,” the statement said.

They convey testimony that they are from an Audi car with Pančevo plates,

The thugs came out, attacked the journalists, kidnapped them and broke their phones, and the camera was taken from the journalist Zorica Popović, who also filmed this attack.

“The seriously injured Bjelić and Dinić were transferred by ambulance to the hospital in Bor, where they were hospitalized and tests are underway due to all the injuries they sustained. The attack was reported by contact points in the police and the prosecutor’s office in Bor,” the statement explained.

Representatives of journalists’ and media associations from the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG) have recorded several cases of endangering the safety of media representatives and interference in journalistic work since this morning.

Miroslav Pantović from Mačva news from Bogatić was attacked during his reporting for his YouTube channel about the events in Bajina Bašta.

Three beatings broke his camera in that attack and took it to the nearby rooms where they were stationed. When he called the police, the broken camera was returned to him without a memory card. He was given medical attention at the health center.

Two attacks on the journalist and photojournalist of the Free Press Foundation, the media of the Hungarian community, Mina Delić, were recorded in Kula.

She noticed men who were carrying boxes next to the tavern “Tvrđava”, stopped and asked them what was in them.

“They were very uncomfortable. One of the men cursed me, approached me and clamped my hand extremely hard in which I held the phone,” she said.

When she posted a video of the attack on the Instagram page, she experienced insults and threats in the comments.

Previously, in front of the tavern “Nuss”, which she was told was suspected to be the headquarters of the Serbian Progressive Party, where the “buying of votes” allegedly takes place, the question answered by pushing.

“I asked the people who were waiting outside if they could tell me why they were waiting there. They became aggressive, they pushed me and they wouldn’t let me enter the tavern space.”

The Finnish Public Service and the journalist of the Storyiteller portal were also disrupted in Kula.

The shooting was prohibited for the journalistic team of the NG portal at the polling stations in Kladovo and Brza Palanka, said Suzana Mihajlovic Jovanovic, the editor-in-chief of this media.

After leaving the polling station, she points out, they noticed that they were filming them from a black car.

“At one point, they came up to us and asked if we were filming and for which media we were reporting. Then they left, I don’t know who they are,” Mihajlovic Jovanovic said.

Journalists’ and media associations, which are on duty in places where local elections are held, assess that such cases of violence against journalists and citizens are unacceptable in a democratic society.

The most worrying reaction of police officers who in all cases protect thugs who beat and intimidate people, do not legitimize them or arrest them.

Numerous videos on social media showed police protecting objects and cars carrying thugs, including those with baseball bats and metal rods.

The Permanent Working Group on the Safety of Journalists calls on the competent authorities to urgently stop the violence and solve all cases of physical attacks that have occurred since this morning.

The journalistic part of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG) earlier in the day issued a request to the Ministry of the Interior to identify and arrest all persons who have been physically attacking journalists and citizens since this morning.

Among today’s attackers is Zoomer journalist Darko Gligorijević, who was tried by unknown persons in Bajina Bašta while reporting from the field, first to take away the phone, and then hit him with his fist in the head and spray pepper with pepper spray, although he emphasized that he was a journalist.

Reporters of th, the Info Blockade and the Political Globe of Serbia were also exposed to the incidents in Bajina Bašta. Ivana Marsenić, a freelance journalist with the ID of the NUNS, was abducted while reporting on it, and the vehicle of the Insider team was punctured with tires.

On the other hand, police members detained Revolt journalist Ivan Bjelic this morning on the grounds that an arrest warrant had been issued for him. After a few hours, Bjelic was released.

The SRG informed all relevant world associations for the protection of journalists and the media about this outrageous violence against journalists and journalists and the media, as well as for the protection of freedom of speech and human rights.

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