The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia has responded to the scandalous appearance of convicted war criminal Vojislav Šešelj, who, during a broadcast on the Serbian regime television channel Informer, revealed the ID card of Telegram reporter Matej Devčić. As reported by Telegram, during a live show on a station closely aligned with Aleksandar Vučić, Šešelj disclosed the personal details of our journalist, while a photograph of his ID card was shown in the background.
Šešelj also named several other individuals and revealed their documents, accompanied by a caption that read, “They are training the protest leaders.” This insinuated that Telegram’s journalist, who had traveled to Belgrade to report on student demonstrations, was somehow involved in organizing the protests.
Tomislav Lendić, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, headed by Gordan Grlić Radman, condemned the incident in a statement to Telegram.
“We find the public disclosure of personal documents of Croatian citizens completely unacceptable. Our Embassy in Belgrade is in continuous communication with the Serbian authorities in order to stop this unacceptable practice of effectively placing targets on the foreheads of Croatian citizens,” he stated.
This is not the first hysterical reaction by regime-aligned media in Belgrade loyal to President Vučić regarding the mass blockade of universities in Serbia. Previously, there were similarly absurd accusations claiming that Croatia’s Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) was behind the student protests, and recently Večernje novosti published Croatian documents belonging to two students of Croatian origin, implying their cooperation with SOA.
To recall, the student blockades began after the collapse of a canopy at the train station in Novi Sad, which resulted in the death of 15 people. The blockades then spread to all four major universities, culminating late last year when around 100,000 people gathered in downtown Belgrade.