The N1 newsroom received a threatening letter, recalling the deadly attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which claimed 12 lives.
The attack on the Charlie Hebdo took place on January 7, 2015, when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the offices of the Parisian satirical weekly. They killed 12 people. The attackers were killed the following day, and the magazine, which has continued its satire and social criticism while insisting there are no taboos, is now located at an undisclosed location under constant police protection.
The letter was mailed from Post Office 11180 in Belgrade’s Maksima Gorkog street No 89.
It was signed by someone calling themselves a Serb patriot and was written partly in Latin and partly in Cyrillic script (Serb nationalists insist on Cyrillic). It called N1 to stop what the authors calls “an anti-Serb witchhunt and propaganda because that offends the patriotic feelings of the Serb people”. “If you feel uneasy or unhappy having been born Serb (the patriot used a small s) not as someone gifted feel free to change your name, surname, place of residence, religion etc,” the letter said. It was full of grammatical errors.
The letter recalled the lethal assault on Charlie Hebdo.
“Remember the humorous, satirical Charlie Hebdo that made fun of the feelings of the Muslim faithful in 2015,” the letter said and went on to recall verses recited by actor Rade Serbedzija which listed both Muslim and Christian female names and asked if those names changed their eyes or faces.
The letter ended saying Patriotic Greetings.
The N1 newsroom has received a large number of hideous and brutal threats in comments on its portal and by email. Also, pro-regime tabloids have been targeting N1 journalists and the Serbian president has been accusing us saying that what we are doing is terrorism.
Source: N1
