June 30, 2025
Speaking while in attendance at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, Spain, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that independent television stations Nova S and N1 are engaging in “pure terrorism”, while simultaneously pressuring the prosecution by saying: “We will wait to see what the prosecution will say, we are still waiting”.
He also said that TV Nova S and N1 “propagated rage and hatred all the time, in the most brutal possible way,” in reference to their reporting during the 28th June protests in Belgrade.
Interestingly, TV N1 announced that it had the highest viewing figures of any television channel in Serbia during the time of the protests, despite not having national broadcast coverage and instead only being aired via cable operators.
Dragan J. Vučićević, owner and chief editor of TV Informer, but also a close associate of President Vučić, insulted and demanded the arrest of N1 journalists reporting from the protest. This is a quote from a television station that has received a regional license from the Regulatory Body:
“I would also bring in this Savatović for interrogation and that Žaklina Tatalović and that rat lady Žana Bulajić, all of them. You’re inciting war, the band that fell apart with N1. They don’t report, they participate in attempted civil war, they participate in rioting. Enough is enough, they
are the worst anti-Serbian scum,” said TV Informer owner and editor Vučićević.
Speaking during his own television programme, he used profanities and called on the police to beat the participants of the protest, “break their ribs” and “arrest the organisers”.
Informer, as the media outlet that’s closest to President Vučić, is otherwise known for regularly announcing upcoming arrests of activists and students, such that it seems as though the prosecution service is working according to orders that are first broadcast on this TV channel… As you will see in the following news story.
