Threats and insults to the journalist, Slavisa Lekic, Belgrade 18.02.2020.

IJAS •︎ 20/02/2020

Threats and insults to the journalist, Slavisa Lekic, Belgrade 18.02.2020.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    RS
  • Gender
    Male
  • Victim(s) name
    Slaviša Lekić

  • Media outlet

  • Source of information about the incident
    N1

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    18.02.2020
  • City
    Belgrade
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    By public official(s) and/or representative(s) of the executive power
  • Type of incident
    Other threats to journalists

  • Action by the authorities

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

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

 

MP’s of the ruling majority in the National Assembly insulted Slavisa Lekic, the author of the movie “Vladalac”. Serbian Progressive Party MP Aleksandar Markovic described the show as “propaganda garbage” and added that it was “the most primitive propaganda on which Goebbels would  feel envy .” According to him, “journalist “wanna be” Slavisa Lekic gathered everyone who hate Aleksandar Vucic in order to attack him”. People’s Peasant Party Chairman Marijan Risticevic asked the Minister of Culture and Information who is financing the Vladalac series. Risticevic added that he wanted to know if “it was commissioned by the Albanian mafia” and stressed  out that “N1 is a pirated and unregistered television station that shows only the failures, members of the Alliance for Serbia”.