Other threats to journalists, Dinko Gruhonjic, Novi Sad, 07.05.2024.

IJAS •︎ 07/05/2024

Other threats to journalists, Dinko Gruhonjic, Novi Sad, 07.05.2024.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Male
  • Victim(s) name
    Dinko Gruhonjic

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Autonomija
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Autonomija, NDNV

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    07.05.2024
  • City
    Novi Sad
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    By public official(s) and/or representative(s) of the executive power
    Politician(s) / political party(ies) (other than public officials)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Posts or comments on social networks
    Through media outlets (broadcast, print, online)
  • Type of incident
    Other threats to journalists
  • Type of threat
    Aggressive, harassing or discriminatory statements

  • Action by the authorities

  • Type of violation
    Other

  • 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 informed international organizations and institutions
    The association provided legal support

The Serbian Progressive Party in Novi Sad published a statement on its website entitled “Dinka Sabahudin Gruhonjić for mayor of the thieves’ coalition: ‘Splačine'”. The announcement states, among other things, the following:

“A coalition has gathered to loot Novi Sad and humiliate everything Serbian, to build pubs in churches and glorify the Serbs as a genocidal nation.” It is a shame to mention their names, but the people of Novi Sad know very well who are proven thieves like Bora Solunac Novakovic, Vlade the Lopinger Jelic, and Serb-haters like Jevrem Brkovic’s grandson, Brajan, and Dink Sabahudin Gruhonjic. They all joined together in one slurp, similar to that which an alcoholic regurgitates after heavy drunkenness from reckless mixing of different drinks, the cockades and the five-pointers, and the Ustasha and the partisans, and the boycotters and those who wanted the elections, and with only one goal – to continue the robbery of the people of Novi Sad, in which we stopped them in 2012.”

The Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina has announced that it denies the allegations about the political engagement of Dink Gruhonjić, as well as other members of the NDNV. NDNV stated that the SNS announcement is proof that it is this party that is behind the lynching campaign against Dink Gruhonjić.