Actual attacks on journalists, Danijel Majić, Bleiburg, 18.05.2019.

Translations: Zagreb 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Zagreb
• Gender

  Male
• Victim(s) name

  Danijel Majić

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Frankfurter Rundschau
• Type of media platform

  Printed Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Mediji

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  18.05.2019
• City

  Bleiburg
• Attacked by

  (ordinary) citizens
  
• Type of incident

  Actual attacks on journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

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

  Yes

Daniel Majic, a journalist at the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau, was physically attacked while reporting from a commemoration at Bleiburg. First, Majić was insulted by Velimir Bujanac’s wife, and then Bujanec spat him twice, after which Majić was physically attacked by a group of visitors to the Bleiburg commemoration. Velimir Bujanec is an activist of the Croatian radical right who calls himself a journalist.