On the same day that threats were made against Radar weekly journalist Vuk Cvijic and N1 journalist Mladen Savatovic, new calls for violence against our media outlet’s newsroom appeared on social media.
A user on the social media platform X under the pseudonym “Patak” shared footage of Russian police storming the offices of the Ura.ru portal in Yekaterinburg, with the message: “I want to storm N1 like this.”
The calls for violence against N1 and our employees come at a time of escalating rhetoric from authorities toward independent and professional media.
We recall that two days ago, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reacted heatedly to questions from N1 reporter Mladen Savatovic about the “General Staff” case and the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (TOK) indictment proposal against Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic.
The president accused the N1 journalist of being a “liar,” “ill-mannered,” claiming he had called him Hitler, accused him of justifying an armed attack on Milan Bogdanovic in the so-called Caciland, and threatened to “re-educate” him “since your parents apparently didn’t.”
After Savatovic announced he would file a lawsuit against the president, a person using the nickname “Srecko” made threats in a comment on that news story, along with a string of profanities and insults, saying that he would wait for Savatovic outside the N1 building.
At the same time, Vuk Cvijic, a journalist for the weekly newsmagazine Radar, on Wednesday evening received a call from an unknown number from abroad. In a brief conversation, he was given a direct threatening warning regarding an article published in the weekly on Thursday.
Cvijic told N1 that he is not sure which article the threat referred to, but that the threat he received came from criminal circles that have the support of the current government.
Source: N1
