Other threats to journalists, Capital.ba, Banjaluka, 22.01.2022.

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Sarajevo
• Who was attacked?

  Group
• Group members' names and surnames

  Capital.ba

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Capital.ba
• Type of media platform

  Online Media
  

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  22.01.2022
• City

  Banjaluka
• Attacked by

  Authorities - individuals
  
• 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

Member of the Senate of Republika Srpska and member of the SNSD party in the Assembly of the City of Banja Luka, technical director of the factory “Bema” Marinko Umicevic verbally attacked the journalist of the CAPITAL portal Bojana Ninkovic and directed insults and curses at the editor-in-chief Sinisa Vukelic.

“You tell that asshole Vukelic that Marinko kicked him in the ass.  He’s calling out there that Bema got 30.000 marks, piece of trash. Everybody is guilty to him because he has five daugthers, he should be ashamed of himself”, Umicevic said in a telephone conversation with a journalist.

After the journalist mentioned the Law on the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest, Umičević addressed her with the following words: “Eat shit kid, you talk to me about the conflict of interest, Vukelic f…. your mother.”