Threats against media outlets and organisations, Danas Newsroom, Belgrade, 11.08.2025.

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Threats against media outlets and organisations, Danas Newsroom, Belgrade, 11.08.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

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

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Danas
  • Type of media platform
    Printed Media
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Dragoljub Petrović

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    11.08.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    (ordinary) citizens
    Organized groups
    Bots
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Chat applications
  • Type of incident
    Threats against media outlets and organizations
  • Type of threat
    Explicit or implicit threats to physical safety of newsroom

  • 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?
    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

A day after Koraksic’s caricature of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was published on the front page of “Danasa”, a threat was sent to the editorial office via Facebook messenger, from the account of a certain Mikica Kljajić, that it is possible that a “bomb or zolja” will hit, so that they will fly apart. The message ended with the words that “they will come home soon”. The case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office for High-Tech Crime. This is not the first time that the editorial office of “Danasa” has faced serious threats, and one of the most terrible, which still has no judicial epilogue, is that it will go down as the editorial office of “Charlie Hebdo”.

After the publication of the cartoon, tabloids close to the government launched an orchestrated campaign against Koraksic, publishing almost identical texts accusing him of calling for the death of the president and calling for terrorism, with a “recommendation” to the prosecution to act. The author himself clearly stated that the message of the cartoon was that “Vučić broke – mentally, not physically”.