While new attacks by government representatives and tabloids on Tamara Skrozza continue, the question arises - what is all this for and why is it happening right now? NUNS President Željko Bodrožić assesses that it is the authorities' desire to divert attention from the increasingly massive protests against lithium mining in the interior
Namely, when he was a guest on Nova S television, he stated that what he is Tamara Skrozza she didn't say any kind of condemnation, because it's completely normal and many other people say and think the same thing.
That was enough for "Informer" to devote part of the front page, as well as pages 4 and 5, to Tamara Skrozza and Radet Veljanovski in today's edition, in the text: "Throughout the chest, opposition haters support sick threats: Skrozza is right, they should have we will kill you on October 5".
Printscreen / InformerContinuation of the campaign against Tamara Skrozza
A text with similar content was published yesterday on the portal of this tabloid.
Veljanovski assessed for "Danas" that this is a propaganda machine that sows untruths and hatred.
"Of course I didn't mention Vučić, just like Tamara Skrozza didn't either. But that only speaks in support of the thesis that they are not journalists at all, neither in the professional nor the ethical sense, and not even in the basic sense. They are a propaganda machine that sows untruths and hatred, and that's what they are for," says Veljanovski.
Bodrožić: The hunt for Tamara is a desire to divert attention from the mass protests
NUNS President Željko Bodrožić reminds her that tabloids regularly have such "outbursts" and that this is their work manner.
When asked why all this and why they have now targeted Tamara Skrozza, Bodrožić replies that these kinds of chases are the manner of the tabloids, as well as that it is a spin in order to divert attention from the protests against lithium, which are increasingly numerous in the interior of Serbia.
"Large protests are ongoing and they are worried that in many smaller places a respectable number of people are gathering who can create some kind of critical mass." It is not indifferent to them and that is why they are dealing with that topic at this moment. Tamara is obviously the main blister on their brain, so they are planning attacks to further humiliate us," said Bodrožić.
He says that the government is not interested in what consequences it leaves for those who are the target of their attacks.
"They do this from time to time when they are threatened." They want to divert attention, to target and criminalize journalists, they don't really care what consequences it leaves for the people who pass through that mud. It ends after a certain time, and then starts again with another, suitable target. And we journalists are there for the main blow. There are few of us, but enough to annoy them," says Bodrožić.
He adds that journalists in the professional media are targeted by the government because of their texts, critical research and public statements, and the current government despises them and tries to discredit them in every way.
"We are suitable for such pursuits, especially Tamara Skrozza, who is one of the few best journalists in the region." She is an example of ethics and kindness. As such, she has become an example of how you get by when you think freely," says Bodrožić.
Attempted lynching and suppression of the media
After the continuation of the campaign, the founders of the "Srđan Aleksić" Regional Journalism Award also spoke out, condemning the lynching of FoNet deputy editor-in-chief Tamara Skrozza, who is implementing the regime in Serbia and the tabloid propaganda media close to it, stressing that the writing of those tabloids endangers the lives of female journalists and it sends a message of what the regime is ready to do in stifling media freedom.
"Tabloid newspapers under the control of the regime issued a warrant for our colleague, targeted her and threatened her safety. Producing violence in society has become the mode of action of the regime, especially according to critics, which puts all those labeled as 'enemies of the regime' in serious – even life-threatening – danger,” the statement said.
It is, it is added, about "a dangerous narrative that does not disdain any method with the aim of silencing all dissenters and critics of the regime".
What "Informer" started, the minister continued
Let us remind you that journalist Tamara Skrozza was accused by the authorities and her media of calling for the assassination of the president. A statement taken out of context and deliberately misinterpreted served as a reason. Journalists' associations called on the line ministry to condemn the attacks on Skrozza, and it did the exact opposite - it joined the campaign with its reaction.
"Monstrous. Vučić should have been killed on the night between October 5 and 6, said opposition journalist Tamara Skrozza, "this is how it was on the national frequency, among the most important news stories day after day and the one that has nothing to do with the truth." Tamara Skrozza reflected on the events of October 1, 5 in the show "If I Were Someone" on N2000.
"That night was supposed to be completely different, something like what we were taught in the history books." If that night had been different and on October 6, if we had woken up in a different Serbia, a Serbia without some people, I think this would be a completely different story today. And we are actually living in the nineties," journalist Tamara Skrozza said in the show.
Lawsuits are the only way out.
On the occasion of the campaign launched against her by the regime's media, Skrozza said that so far she has not responded to all similar accusations with lawsuits, but that in such an extreme situation, they are the only way out.
"This is now something that threatens me and my family in a very specific and existential way and it cannot just go away." Moreover, this is an open lie, it is not a manipulation of the facts, but something was put in my mouth that I did not say," said Skrozza.
She said that she feels threatened and that she feels most sorry for her daughter and mother, who are having a hard time with all of this.
"I worry about my mother, who is far from Belgrade, I worry about my daughter, who they know here in the neighborhood, whose name it is, I worry about how people will look at me at the market and so on... and that feeling is known to everyone who has gone through what I am going through" , Skrozza stated.
Skrozza: I didn't mean any murders
She also said that situations like this are very ungrateful for a man to defend himself, because he needs to explain that he didn't say what he didn't say.
"I really think that everything would have been different if that night on October 5 had gone differently." At the same time, I was not thinking of any murders. I think that all the people from the government at the time who were responsible for the events of the 90s should have been brought before the competent judicial authorities. Those people did not respond in any way. And that's all that is behind my statement," Skrozza explained.
In her opinion, she did not say anything wise and clever, because everyone who lived at that time expected that decade to have some judicial origin.
"Please be nice, no one ever answered." Individuals were responsible for war crimes, but who was responsible for crimes against us citizens, who was responsible for the thousands of people who died in hospitals from poverty, who was responsible for the people who died of hunger in 1993? Who was responsible for the ten years lost by my generation? Nobody. "I think they had to answer, and we know who was in power in the XNUMXs," Skrozza said.
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