Actual physical attacks against journalist, Vuk Cvijic, Belgrade, 29.05.2024.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Gender

  Male
• Victim(s) name

  Vuk Cvijić

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Radar
• Type of media platform

  Printed Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Vuk Cvijić

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  29.05.2024
• City

  Belgrade
• Perpetrator(s)

  Known (suspected)
• Attacked by

  Public person(s)
  
• Type of incident

  Actual attacks on journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

• Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?

  Yes

Vuk Z. Cvijić, a journalist from the “Radar” media, was physically attacked on the street in the center of Belgrade. Cvijić told the media that he was punched in the head by Milan Lađević, one of the co-owners of the media publishers Srpski telegraf and Republika.rs. After the impact, the journalist fell to the ground. Cvijić emphasized that he has known Lađeviđa for a long time and that they are not in a personal conflict. He said that on the critical occasion, he was passing by the street (next to the cafe where Lađević was sitting), and that the attacker got in his face and insulted him before hitting him. Cvijić sees the potential reason for the attack in the fact that he wrote about former Novi Sad police chief Slobodan Malešić – Lađević’s godfather. Lađević is also mentioned in those texts. Cvijić informed Veran Matić, a member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, about the event. The police soon came to the field, and journalists from the weekly newspaper “Radar” also provided support for their colleague. According to the weekly “Radar”, the chief public prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, Nenad Stefanović, gave an order to act to the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade. Lađević denies allegations that he physically assaulted Cvijić. He says that Cvijić provoked him and that at one point they started getting in each other’s faces. Allegedly, there was no physical confrontation. Asked how Cvijić then fell, Lađević told the “Raskrivanje” portal that he was not aware of it.