Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Dušan Petričić, Belgrade, 11.12.2025.

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Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Dušan Petričić, Belgrade, 11.12.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

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

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Radar
  • Type of media platform
    Printed Media
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Veran Matić

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    11.12.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Organized groups
    Bots
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    E-mail
    Posts or comments on social networks
  • Type of incident
    Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists
  • Type of threat
    Explicit - to journalist(s)

  • Action by the authorities

  • Legal status of the case
    The procedure is in the phase of gathering information about all the circumstances of the case
  • Type of violation
    Security threat

  • 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 editors of the Radar portal and cartoonist Dušan Petričić received several threats in comments on the cartoon published on the portal.

One of the comments contained a direct threat to Petričić: “We’ll meet in Zemun. I’ll show you how I make a caricature of a man.”

All threats were reported to the competent Special Prosecutor’s Office for High Tech Crime