VRANJE, 22.09.2020. – The founders of the infovranjske.rs news portal in the southern Serbia town of Vranje on Monday expressed concern over the latest attacks on the portal and its journalists.
The Team for Development and Integration said that it was greatly concerned over the attacks on the portal, journalist Slavomir Kostic and for the safety of the rest of the news desk. The Team, as founder of the portal, also called the authorities to react immediately, the portal said.
The Team reacted to a statement from the Mineralac football club which called the InfoVranjske portal “anti-Serb and anti-state” and singled Kostic out as “an on duty idiot and rat”. Mineralac supporters also carried a banner insulting Kostic at its field.
InfoVranjske recalled that portal editor in chief Sasa Stojkovic was insulted in an earlier statement by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).