President Aleksandar Vučić, during yesterday’s appearance on the television channel “Pink”, announced a “crackdown” on independent journalists in Serbia, stating that he would “personally file a criminal complaint against the prosecutor who refused to arrest journalists from the blockading media.”
According to Nova.rs, it is presumed that Vučić was referring to journalists from the outlets N1, Nova, and Danas, as they report daily on student blockades in Serbia. The portal also notes that the president’s statements are dangerous and represent a suppression of media freedom in Serbia.
Aleksandar Vučić, in yet another address—this time on “Pink” TV—announced the prosecution of journalists, rectors, and deans in Serbia.
“They now know they are in the minority, now it’s clear to them that Serbia has awakened, that free Serbia has awakened, that it will no longer endure tyranny and that the people want to preserve the state. So now, what are we facing? Their fear. So how will the dean of the Faculty of Economics, explain to me, get away without responsibility? She interviewed students from LSE, and banned our students from attending classes and taking exams. So how will you escape criminal-legal responsibility? How will Rector Đokić escape criminal-legal responsibility? How do you think that is even possible,” Vučić asked.
He also added that this is not his job, but that, if necessary, he would personally file a criminal complaint, “although he sees that others have already done it.”
“I have never done that before. But against that prosecutor who filed [something], well, I will personally file [a complaint] against him. Let’s see then, let them reject the complaint and say I’m crazy, and he’s smart for refusing to prosecute journalists from blockading media who ride tractors—because apparently their tractors don’t pollute the air, which are twice as big as those regular, peasant, family tractors—so their tractors apparently don’t pollute the air, while those who were saving the lives of these kids in ‘Ćaciland,’ as it’s popularly called, and I’m also a Ćaci and proud of it,” Vučić said on “Pink.”
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The statements by the President of Serbia are extremely dangerous and may be interpreted as an attempt to suppress media freedom in the country, warns Nova.rs. Journalists from N1, Nova, and Danas, the portal notes, report objectively on events in Serbia, including the student blockades that have been ongoing for months across the country.
Nearly all faculties in Serbia have been under blockade for months, with students demanding that their requests be met. One of these demands is the publication of all documentation related to the reconstruction project of the Railway Station, where on November 1 last year, a canopy collapsed and killed 16 people.
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