A FoNet news agency reporter was assaulted by regime supporters outside parliament on the night of Monday-Tuesday, the agency said.
It said that unidentified men came out of the regime supporter tent camp between parliament and the Serbian presidency and assaulted reporter Marko Conjagic who was walking down the street below parliament after covering a gathering of support for Dijana Hrka who is on hunger strike demanding accountability for the death of her son in the Novi Sad Railway Station tragedy.
Conjagic was wearing a fluorescent vest with PRESS on the back when he was assaulted by 4 masked men who tried and failed to pull him into the area behind the fence around parliament. He was beaten to the ground and then kicked. Several eyewitnesses called for the police who did not respond. A Gendarmerie trooper walked up and Conjagic told him he had been assaulted. The trooper told him to move on. Conjagic walked up to plainclothes police officers to report the assault but was told that he had to go to the local police station because they were there on a different case.
“FoNet news agency condemns the assault on its reporter and demands that the police and prosecution take decisive steps against the thugs and protect journalists reporting from public gatherings,” the agency said.
In a separate incident, a regime supporter dressed in black struck a girl recording him on her phone. The man was applying grease to the fence around the tent camp. The man punched her in the head. A video showedpolice officers deployed near the fence turning their heads from the incident.
Source: N1
