“He should be hanged with a public broadcast,” they told “Južni vesti” journalists, the threats are being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office – Society

“I sincerely wish all Južni vesti editorial staff that migrants savagely rape their children to death” is one of several threatening messages sent to journalists from the same IP address in the comments below the text as a security worker from the company in Niš warned and fired. a group of young people and one wounded.

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Nis police say that the Basic Public Ministry classified the act as a threat to security, and the report was presented to the Prosecutor’s Office for High Technology Crimes, they announced on their Južne vesti website.

According to Južne Vesti, the day after the news was published that a 62-year-old man from Bor, while securing the space of a company in Niš, noticed a group of men approaching him and fired several shots and was slightly injured after being warned to leave the company premises. The 22-year-old, from the same IP address, received several threats to journalists in comments on the site.

These threats were reported to the police, but continued from the same direction later, when this comment came in:

You see, son, because the owner, editor and employees of JV suck the same European house that Vučić sucks, they are just for another pharaoh, not for Vucko, but actually the same anti-Serbian shit that should be hanging on the Christmas tree that decorates.

The Nis police, to whom the threats were reported, say they reported to the Nis Basic Prosecutor’s Office, which classified the act as a security threat.

And he ordered that the report be presented to the High Technology Crime Prosecutor’s Office, which was done – added the Police.

When it comes to the way they are Southern News Tamara Skrozza, journalist and member of the Press Council, pointed out that the nationality, ideological affiliation, sexual orientation or any personal characteristic of a person suspected of having committed a crime or victim of a crime should be mentioned only if that crime has a direct connection with the nature of the crime.

If, for example, a radical rightist hits a member of the LGBT community, the skinhead kills a gypsy and the like. These are situations where the beating or murder is more directly related to a crime, he explains.

It indicates that in the situation referred to in the aforementioned news item, the suspect did not attack the migrant because he was a migrant, nor did he have any kind of problem with migrants as such, but rather defended the property and fired at a group of people who represented a threat.

I would do the same if they were Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins or Indians. The question is even whether at the time he could, based on his physical appearance, assess where the people he suspected might have put him in danger came from, he notes.

It concludes that any media outlet that in this case kept silent about the victim’s ethnicity acted in accordance with professional standards, not for the supposed “protection” of migrants or anything like that, but simply because this crime has nothing to do with it. do with the origin of the victim.

Editorial office Southern News We will continue to report according to the rules of the profession, and not according to the mood of extreme individuals or groups always ready to target journalists and their families, says the editor. Southern News Gordana Bjeletić.

We hope that the man who wrote about the minor children of the people employed in our newsroom in this way will be found as soon as possible, because the public must know who, by hiding behind false names, endangers the safety of journalists. By the way, they sign each of their texts and it is inadmissible that the peace and security of any person be endangered by their professional work, says Bjeletić.

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