The SafeJournalists network strongly condemns yet another attack on N1 journalists. Today, while an N1 television crew was filming an area near the Serbian Parliament, a young man approached them and demanded that they stop filming. Shortly afterward, the same young man took the camera and threw it onto the ground several times, thus destroying it.
The police, who were nearby, did not react to the incident but said that another team would arrive, to whom the case should be reported. When the second team appeared, members of the NUNS secretariat present were told that they had received information from the prosecutor’s office that no on-site investigation would be conducted, and the N1 crew was told to leave and report the case to the competent police department. When NUNS representatives asked which prosecutor’s office had made such a decision, the police officers said they did not know exactly and would return soon with that information. After that, NUNS received information that it had not yet been decided whether an investigation would be carried out, and after a few minutes a patrol secured the crime scene until the arrival of a team that conducted the investigation. The investigation was completed and the prosecutor’s office was notified. The attacker fled the scene.
The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS) points out that since the beginning of the year a record number of physical attacks on journalists has been recorded, and reiterate that there is no consistent prevention or systemic protection for journalists in Serbia. Attacks remain unpunished, investigations last for years, and the message this sends is that violence against journalists is permitted.
What is additionally worrying is the fact that police officers are often present at the scene and do not react. The absence of sanctions only deepens the problem of impunity and the insecurity of the conditions in which journalists work.
NUNS believes that such treatment of journalists is a consequence of their being targeted by politicians, primarily those from the ruling coalition, and reminds that a few days ago the Minister of Information and Telecommunications, Boris Bratina, accused journalists from N1 and Nova S of being “to blame for many things” and that they should not “exist on air in the territory of the state.”
The SafeJournalists network joins NUNS in strongly condemning yet another in a series of attacks on media workers in Serbia. The Network demands that the competent institutions carry out an investigation, conduct the procedure, and punish the perpetrator.
The SafeJournalists Network will inform relevant national and international actors about this case.
Every attack on journalists is an attack on democracy, the public interest, and fundamental human rights.
Pristina – Skopje – Sarajevo – Zagreb – Belgrade – Podgorica – Tirana, November 20, 2025
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BH Journalists’ Association
Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia
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