Actual attacks on journalists, Danica Ilić, Belgrade, 25.01.2025.

IJAS •︎ 25/01/2025

Actual attacks on journalists, Danica Ilić, Belgrade, 25.01.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

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

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Freelancer
  • Source of information about the incident
    Portal N1

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    25.01.2025
  • City
    Belgrade
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    Politician(s) / political party(ies) (other than public officials)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    In person
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists
  • Type of attack
    attack_physical_snatch

  • Action by the authorities

  • Type of violation
    Damage to journalists' belongings

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    No

Journalist Danica Ilić was robbed of her mobile phone by the Minister of Finance in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Siniša Mali.

According to her, the journalist found herself in a restaurant when the guests, after he got up to pay the bill, started shouting, “Students, students”. The shouts were joined first by the guests, and then by the restaurant workers. The minister showed them the middle finger. The journalist approached him, introduced herself (as a journalist) and asked for a statement.
“He forcefully snatched the phone from my hands.” I started for them. We left the restaurant. He asked me why I was filming him and I wanted to talk to him, where I explained that they had just chanted “long live the students” at him, and he showed his middle finger, but I also reminded him that he was a public official, in a public place, and that I, as a journalist, could to ask him what he thinks about it. The whole time we were walking down the street, the minister carried my phone, and after discussing what is a public function and what is a journalist’s job, in the end, he put my phone down on the planter,” said journalist Danica Ilić.

Source: The guests in the restaurant chanted “long live the students” to Mal, he showed them the middle finger.

Gosti u restoranu skandirali Malom „živeli studenti“, on im pokazao srednji prst