Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Slavisa Lekic |
Gender | Male |
Date | 03/02/2018 |
City / Location | Belgrade |
Type of incident | Other threats to journalists |
By whom | To journalists by citizens |
Media name | Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia |
Source | Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia |
Judiciary status | The prosecutor's office established that there are no grounds for criminal prosecution as for criminal offences prosecuted ex officio. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS filed criminal charges to prosecutor office. |
Were authorities informed? | Yes - Public |
An unknown person sent to the president of the IJAS, Slavisa Lekic threatening message via Facebook. The message had the following content: “I fuck all of yours – dead or alive, you other Serbian scumbag! I fuck Bojana, who stopped your time, you sell-out. In the end – I fuck your bosses your bigheaded freak!” In October last year, the same person sent Lekic messages with similar content.
‘Other Serbians’ is a pejorative term for Serbian intellectuals who established communication with Croatian intellectuals during the war in the nineties. It is used by right wing groups to insult those who don’t share their values.