Actual attacks on journalists, Group of media teams, reporters and photoreporters, Belgrade, 14.08.2025.

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Actual attacks on journalists, Group of media teams, reporters and photoreporters, Belgrade, 14.08.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Other
  • Victim(s) name
    Zoomer, Mašina, N1, Nova S, Puls generacije, Blokadar

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Više medija: Zoomer, Mašina, N1, Nova S, Puls generacije, Blokadar, Danas
  • Type of media platform
    Television
    Online Media
    Freelancer
  • Source of information about the incident
    Teodora Šulj, Zoomer

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    14.08.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was not reported to the authorities
  • 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 without physical injury

  • Action by the authorities

  • Type of violation
    Security threat
    Light physical injury
    Damage to journalists' belongings

  • 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 informed international organizations and institutions
    The association provided legal support

During the protest gatherings in the evening hours of August 14, supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party attacked the gathered journalists, who were reporting on last night’s protests in front of the General Staff in Kneza Miloša Street and who were grouped in the zone between the two gathered parties.

Given that there was no police cordon set up between the journalists and SNS supporters, but only a small number of deployed policemen, at one point the SNS supporters rushed towards the journalists in an organized manner and with the intention of attacking and intimidating them, shouting “now film the journalists”.

The journalists had to run down Birčaninova Street, which was recorded by Teodora Šulj, a journalist from the “Zoomer” portal, on a live video. Fortunately, there were no physical injuries, and according to the data available to NUNS, journalists were not injured in this attack.