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As the elections in Serbia approach, there is an increasing chance that conditions will improve, that insults and the drawing of targets will stop … In that name, the head of the progressives in the National Assembly, Aleksandar Martinović , accused the directors of the NGO Crta, which monitors and analyzes parliament, and the editor of the KRIK portal, Stevan Dojčinović, for laundering foreign money and being criminal associations. Earlier today, Culture and Information Minister Maja Gojković told H1 that it would be good for the journalists’ associations that left the working group to consider that decision and work together again.
He was given two minutes to respond to a colleague from the SPS who defended him from the NGO sector. The head of the progressives, Aleksandar Martinović, without notifying the president, made numerous accusations for more than thirteen minutes: the target was Krika’s journalist Stevan Dojčinović and the directors of the NGO Crta Rasa Nedeljkov and Vukosava Crnjanski, without omitting private details.
“He lives in Zemun, in a 100 square meter apartment and drives a Toyota Land Cruiser jeep.”
And after asking his fellow MPs, who, he explained, cover him with lies every day, which of them has a 100-square-meter apartment and drives a new jeep, Martinović explained how, according to himself, the quasi-intellectuals of the non-governmental sector lives.
“They take money from abroad, they spend part here, what they don’t spend on expensive cars, apartments, suits, mobile phones, fake projects that have never been done, then they take that money abroad. These are not non-governmental organizations, in fact, they should not lie and speak openly in human terms, and not in the language of birds, they are criminal associations, “said Martinović.
And in the face of this continuation of the series of attacks by parliamentarians on investigative journalists and the non-governmental sector, the H1 team sought the reaction of the Minister of Culture and Information, the former Speaker of the Assembly Maja Gojković. His words, it sounds like that, disabled his party colleague with today’s performance.
“I am convinced that the journalists’ associations that made the initial decision to leave the working group that will deal with the safety and protection of journalists should consider that decision and return, to continue working together, and I believe that the journalists of our country accuse each other too much. And they share too much, “Gojković said.
We could not ask who and why is creating these divisions among journalists. And the rapporteur of the European Parliament, Vladimir Bilčik, reiterated once again that he closely monitors what is happening in Serbia.
“I myself have publicly expressed my concern about the campaign targeting KRIK investigative journalists, but as I said, it is very important that we look at the big picture. Individual cases must be discussed, people’s voices must be heard, but what more important is to systematically protect journalists, support free and independent media and that the public service has the power to represent the public interest. Those are the key things, “said Bilchik.
Providing an environment in which the freedom of the media and the role of civil society can be realized without hindrance and without pressure, that was the theme of the meeting between the President of the State and the head of the EU delegation, Sam Fabrizio. Vučić especially emphasized that he advocates that representatives of all the media do their work in an environment of total freedom of expression and that he remains personally committed to that, because freedom of the media is, as the president said, one of the greatest achievements of democracy.
