Threats against media outlets and organizations, Nacional, Zagreb, 20.5.2024.

CJA •︎ 22/05/2024

Threats against media outlets and organizations, Nacional, Zagreb, 20.5.2024.

Translations: Zagreb 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Zagreb
  • Who was attacked?
    Organization

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Nacional
  • Type of media platform
    Printed Media
    Online Media

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    20.05.2024
  • City
    Zagreb
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    (ordinary) citizens
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Telephone (Call or sms)
  • Type of incident
    Threats against media outlets and organizations
  • Type of threat
    Explicit or implicit threats to physical safety of newsroom

  • Action by the authorities

  • Legal status of the case
    The procedure is in the investigative phase
  • Type of violation
    Security threat

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    Yes
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly
    The association sent a letter of concern to the institutions
    The association informed international organizations and institutions

On Monday, May 20, Nacional received a message on the official editorial mobile phone number, which read literally “You and your ilk assassinated Prime Minister Fico by writing half-truths, lies and inciting people who do their job in order to collect money. Your triple informer paid for it with his head, and soon all the editors from the “axis of evil” will too. We are waiting for the moment to catch as many of you together as possible so that we don’t waste explosives for just one scavenger. The vultures who survive will start writing the truth and only the truth, not lying, inventing and writing to order just to collect money. We are following you and more than two will be successful, so write your wills…”

The editorial staff of Nacional officially informed the Minister of the Interior, Davor Božinović, about this threat and submitted the report to police investigators at the headquarters of the Police Department in Heinzelova street in Zagreb.