Actual attacks on journalists, Marko Čonjagić, Belgrade, 03.11.2025.

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Actual attacks on journalists, Marko Čonjagić, Belgrade, 03.11.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

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

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    FoNet
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
    Other
  • Source of information about the incident
    Marko Čonjagić

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    03.11.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office
  • 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
    Attack resulting in physical harm

  • Action by the authorities

  • 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 provided legal support

FoNet agency reporter Marko Čonjagić was physically attacked on November 3 around 11 pm in Kosovska Street in Belgrade while reporting from a rally in support of Dijana Hrka.

According to the testimonies of colleagues and citizens, four men (three masked) tried to drag him into the fenced area, and then knocked him down and kicked him. Marko was wearing clear signs that he was a journalist, among other things he was wearing a fluorescent vest with the inscription “press”.

Despite the calls of the citizens and the address of the attacked to the police officers, a timely and adequate police reaction did not follow. The plainclothes policemen who were present told our colleague that he had to go to the Stari grad police station to report the incident because they were there for another reason, which he eventually did.

The journalist reported the case to the competent public prosecutor’s office.