Other threats to journalists: Nikolija Bjelica Škrivan (Direkt) and Bojan Nosović (ATV), Bileća, 11.04.2025.

BHJA •︎ 14/04/2025

Other threats to journalists: Nikolija Bjelica Škrivan (Direkt) and Bojan Nosović (ATV), Bileća, 11.04.2025.

Translations: Sarajevo 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Sarajevo
  • Who was attacked?
    Group
  • Group members' names and surnames
    Nikolija Bjelica Škrivan i Bojan Nosović

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Portal Direkt and ATV Banja Luka
  • Type of media platform
    Radio
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Journalist

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    11.04.2025
  • City
    Bileća
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    (ordinary) citizens
    Security staff or agencie(s)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    In person
  • Type of incident
    Other threats to journalists
  • Type of threat
    Aggressive, harassing or discriminatory statements

  • Action by the authorities

  • Police action
    N/A
  • Public prosecutor's action
    N/A
  • Court action
    N/A
  • 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?
    Yes
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association sent a letter of concern to the institutions

Woman journalist Nikolija Bjelica Škrivan from Direkt and journalist Bojan Nosović from Alternative TV Banja Luka (ATV) have been verabally attacked while trying to attend the meeting between citizens from village Bijela Rudina with mayor of the municipality, president of the assembly and a potential investor who, allegedly, wanted to construct a so-called cancer center in the vicinity of their houses. The journalists were invited to the meeting by the citizens who have been complaining for some time because of the planned construction. Three crews (ATV, Radio Bileća and Direkt) came to the meeting, but the mayor said that they could only get statements at the end of the meeting and record some scenes at the beginning of the meeting. However, when they entered the conference room, the security officer pushed journalists Bjelica Škrivan and Nosović roughly out of the room and insulted them. Only when the mayor said they could film the scenes, the security officer has let them do that.

After the meeting, the investor, Marko Manigoda, did not want to give them a statement, while he threatened to Bjelica Škrivan that he might break her phone, and covered the camera to Nosović so he could not film. When Bjelica Škrivan invited one of the participants of the meeting to give her a statement, the security officer who prevented them earlier from entering the conference room, started to insult her in a very sexist way. After that, he also insulted the journalist Nosović.

The new local government in Bileća has already blamed media for bad presentations of the municipality which has quite a lot of problems lately, believing that, if media do not report on that, the situation would improve.