Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Zeljko Matorcevic |
Gender | Male |
Date | 09/10/2018 |
City / Location | Belgrade |
Type of incident | Actual attacks on journalists |
Type of media | online |
Media name | Nasa Grocka |
Source | Independent Journalists Association of Serbia |
Judiciary status | The incident was reported to the police. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS condemned the attack and demanded that the police urgently investigate this attack and arrest the perpetrator. |
Zeljko Matorcevic was attacked by an unidentified young man on Tuesday morning who first followed him, then suddenly hit him at the head, and when Matorcevic fell to the ground he continued to hit him. Matorcevic suffered serious body injuries: his cheekbone was broken and in the following days he would undergo a surgical procedure.