Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Dinko Gruhonjić, Novi Sad, 10.12.2024.

IJAS •︎ 10/12/2024

Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Dinko Gruhonjić, Novi Sad, 10.12.2024.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Male
  • Victim(s) name
    Dinko Gruhonjic

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Autonomija
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Veljko MIlic

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    10.12.2024
  • City
    Novi Sad
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    (ordinary) citizens
    Organized groups
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Posts or comments on social networks
  • Type of incident
    life_threat

  • Action by the authorities

  • Legal status of the case
    The procedure is in the phase of gathering information about all the circumstances of the case
  • Type of violation
    Security threat

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    No
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly
    The association sent a letter of concern to the institutions

Journalist and professor Dinko Gruhonjić received dangerous direct verbal threats on social network Facebook. The threat is just one of many made during the protests in Novi Sad over the death of 15 people after a canopy collapsed at the Novi Sad train station. Gruhonjic strongly supported the protests by students and citizens, which provoked extremely harsh reactions from individuals and organized groups.

Gruhonjic was told: “It’s a question of your end”, “remember that I follow you like a shadow, it’s a matter of minutes when you will be deceased”, “you will die quickly”, “you will be slaughtered”, it is written in the threatening messages sent on Facebook by foreign person who is signed as Milenko Protić.

Journalist reported the threats addressed to him to the Prosecutor’s Office for High-Tech Crime through the mechanism of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists.