Actual attacks on journalists, Zoran Strika, Novi Sad, 12.4.2025.

IJAS •︎ 12/04/2025

Actual attacks on journalists, Zoran Strika, Novi Sad, 12.4.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

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

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Radio 021
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Radio 021, Zoran Strika

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    12.04.2025
  • City
    Novi Sad
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Organized groups
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    In person
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists
  • Type of attack
    attack_without_injury

  • 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

  • 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

Zoran Strika, deputy editor-in-chief of Radio 021 from Novi Sad, was attacked while attempting to document violence against a citizen on the Danube quay, where two assailants knocked a young man to the ground and took his phone, which they then threw into the river. When Strika tried to record the incident, he was physically assaulted — one of the attackers grabbed him by the neck and tried to seize his phone. Soon after, three more men with hoodies appeared, forcibly took his phone, and threw it into the Danube, clearly intending to destroy the evidence of the assault.