Actual attacks on journalists, Gavrilo Andrić, Negotin, 30.11.2025.

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Actual attacks on journalists, Gavrilo Andrić, Negotin, 30.11.2025.

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  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Man
  • Victim(s) name
    Gavrilo Andrić

  • Media outlet

  • Type of media platform
    Freelancer
  • Source of information about the incident
    Mašina

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    30.11.2025
  • City
    Negotin
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the police
  • 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
    Physical attack with snatching or damage to devices, cars or other journalist's belongings

  • 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
    Damage to journalists' belongings

  • 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 provided legal support

Photojournalist Gavrilo Andrić, while documenting the events in front of the polling station in Negotinno on November 30. attacked by a group of people on quad bikes.

A quad bike ran over his leg, and the passenger of that vehicle snatched the phone from his hand while he was recording the incident.

Although Andrić located his phone and requested the police to go with him to find it, the police officers, as stated, did not do so. In the end, in the company of a few people, he came alone to the location in the parking lot where the phone was found, while two inspectors were already there.