Serbian media watchdog says remarks against Tepic were discriminatory

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The Serbian electronic media watchdog said it had launched proceedings against the pro-regime TV Pink over the offensive statements against an opposition leader by a former paramilitary leader.

The Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) said in a report that the statements by war-time paramilitary leader Dragoslav Bokan claiming that opposition politician Marinika Tepic is a national enemy because of her ethnic Romanian origins were discrimination.

 

“The negative attitude towards Tepic was in the context of her membership in a national minority and she was even designated national enemy and the state was called to set up defense mechanims which was a call for a national and state confrontation with the Romanian minority,” the report said.

 

The REM report said that the TV Pink anchor also failed to react appropriately to Bokan’s statements.

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