Actual attacks on journalists, Dejan Ilić, Belgrade, 10.4.2025.

IJAS •︎ 10/04/2025

Actual attacks on journalists, Dejan Ilić, Belgrade, 10.4.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

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

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Peščanik
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Peščanik

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    10.04.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Authorities - institutions
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    In person
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists
  • Type of attack
    attack_detention

  • Action by the authorities

  • 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 informed international organizations and institutions

Peščanika columnist Dejan Ilić was detained today by order of the Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, due to his alleged statement that he “caused panic and disorder” in the show “Pokreni se” broadcast on Nova television, and he was detained for 48 hours.

Ilić said in a statement to the media earlier today that the police were looking for him last night, that they called him by phone and asked him to come to the police station, but that he was not told why he was called.

The Third Primary Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade announced that it had made a decision to detain the columnist of Peščanik, because he stated in the show “Pokreni se” that was broadcast on “Nova” television on March 29: “You have to choose – either you will open the door for those people to take refuge, and the transitional government is the one who opens the door, or you will accept the fact that blood will flow in the streets, that we will lose I don’t know how many lives and we don’t know whose lives, in order to get rid of them.”

On the same day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Serbia announced that Ilic had been released and that criminal charges would be filed against him for causing panic and disorder.