Threats against the life and physical safety of journalists, TV N1 Newsroom, Belgrade, 11.07.2025. godine

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Threats against the life and physical safety of journalists, TV N1 Newsroom, Belgrade, 11.07.2025. godine

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Group
  • Group members' names and surnames
    Redakcija TV N1

  • Media outlet

  • Type of media platform
    Television
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Igor Bozic

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    11.07.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Organized groups
    Bots
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Post mail
  • Type of incident
    Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists
  • Type of threat
    Explicit - to journalist(s)

  • Action by the authorities

  • Police action
    Policija je postupila po nalogu tuzioca, u kratkom roku preuzela pismo i zapocela radnje prikupljanja podataka.
  • Public prosecutor's action
    Postupio odmah po primljenoj prijavi i obavestio posdnosioca NUNS: Поштовани Раде, поводом Вашег мејла у којем пријављујете претњу према ТВ Н1, обавештавам Вас да смо истог дана формирали предмет и започели предистражни поступак, о чему сте сигурно обавештени, имајући у виду да су полицијски службеници по налогу дежурног јавног тужиоца већ преузели материјалне доказе у циљу утврђивања идентитета лица које је послало предметно писмо. У даљем току поступка тужилаштво ће предузети све неопходне радње из своје надлежности и то у што краћем року. Срдачан поздрав Јавни тужилац Саша Минић
  • 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 reacted publicly
    The association sent a letter of concern to the institutions
    The association informed international organizations and institutions
    The association provided legal support

The editorial office of TV N1 was brutally threatened in a letter that arrived by post on 11.07.2025. year. The letter was sent from Belgrade from the post office located in Vračar.

The threat reads as follows:

..To the editors of N1 tv

As a sincere Serbian patriot, I would like to address you in this way
with a request to stop the anti-Spera harassment and inciting propaganda,
because it offends the patriotic feelings of the Serbian people. If you are uncomfortable here
or you feel unlucky to be born as a Serb, and not as some, “endowed” you can
feel free to change your name, surname, place of residence, religion, etc.
If you remember, Charlie Hebdo’s humorous satirical newspaper played and joked with the feelings of believers of the Muslim religion in 2015.

As Rade Šerbedžija says in one of his recitations,

“What was your name, dear neighbor,
Emma, Selma, Alma, Adela and
has anything changed yours
eyes, face and belly”

It could also be said like this

what were your names Danica, Žaklina, Maja, Nataša, Ivana…
and will it change your eyes, face, and belly…

patriotic salute

The threats were reported to the competent Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, which acted immediately and ordered the police to act. The police very quickly took the letter in the premises of N1 and continued further actions.