Physical attack on a journalist, Slavica Panić, Užice, January 9, 2022.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Gender

  Female
• Victim(s) name

  Slavica Panić

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Nova.rs

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  09.01.2022
• City

  Užice
• Perpetrator(s)

  Not known
• Attacked by

  (ordinary) citizens
  
• Type of incident

  life_threat

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

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

  Yes

In Uzice, near the end of the protests on which traffic was blocked on the highway leading to Belgrade and Zlatibor, a woman from a car with Belgrade license plates attacked Nova.rs reporter Slavica Panic and, with swearing and insults, broke her mobile phone, with which she filmed the protest. The journalist told Danas: “While I was filming, a woman got out of the car and started shouting at me and cursing me, and then she hit me on the hand where I was holding my mobile phone and it fell out of my hand into the street. “. She added that she attacked her, probably because she thought she was filming only her.