Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Anita Djukic |
Gender | Female |
Date | 15/08/2018 |
City / Location | Jagodina |
Type of incident | Other threats to journalists |
Type of media | online |
Media name | Info Centrala |
Source | Cenzolovka |
Article and legislation violated (nationally) | Endangerment of Safety, article 138, paragraph 3 of Criminal Code. |
Legal closure | Perpatrator is convicted |
Perpatrator is convicted.Description: | First instance court convicted perpetrator on the suspended sentence. The court convicted him on 8 mounts imprisonment on parole and concurrently determines that it shall not be enforced provided the convicted person does not commit a new offense during a period of 2 years. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the police |
According to Anita Djuric, a journalist and Editor in Chief of the Info Centrella portal, she was attacked while she reporting about a bomb being dumped at a house in Jagodina. When she came in front of the house she started to record from the street, she didn’t enter at the private property. After that, a group of guys took away the camera, sent a large number of insults and threats. Among other things they said: “We’ll burn you and the car”.