The Subotica police have provided the prosecution with a portion of the information regarding the attack on journalists during the protest in front of the SNS.
The Police Department in Subotica has provided the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica with part of the information regarding the incident that occurred on November 11, 2025, when supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) prevented two journalists from taking photographs at the gathering in front of the SNS offices.
In the letter from the police, which the Magločistač portal received from the competent prosecutor's office via a request for access to information of public importance, the names of individuals who were interviewed are listed, and these individuals claimed during the interviews that there was no violence, but the names of those who were in contact with the journalists were not provided.
The names of the individuals with whom interviews were conducted are known to the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica, as well as to the Magločistač portal, and this information was submitted to the prosecutor's office on January 27, nearly two and a half months after the actual event.
The incident occurred on November 11, 2025, during an unregistered public gathering – a protest at the intersection of Trg Lazara Nešića and Maksim Gorki streets in Subotica, as well as a rally against blockades that was simultaneously taking place in front of the SNS offices on Bose Milićević Street.
According to the letter from the Subotica police, around 6 PM, journalists from the Magločistač portal and the Beta agency, Natalija Jakovljević and journalist from the Subotičke.rs portal, Nataša Filipović, reported that unknown male individuals prevented them from filming those gathered in front of the SNS offices.
Approximately 70 individuals, members and supporters of the SNS, were present in the parking area in front of the party offices. According to their own account, the police conducted interviews with three individuals regarding the journalists' report.
The police letter states that during the conversation "it was determined that no one had committed violence against the journalists," and that "some of the gathered individuals asked the journalists not to film them as they wished to protect their privacy."
It is also added that the acting heads of the Police Administration in Subotica spoke with both journalists and asked them multiple times whether they wanted to officially report the incident, which they reportedly explicitly refused at that moment.
According to earlier reports from the Magločistač portal, that evening, men dressed in black prevented the journalists from photographing the gathering in front of the SNS offices, during which one of them crumpled the accreditation that the Magločistač journalist was wearing around her neck and hit her on the arm, while another attempted to take her colleague's mobile phone. The police soon arrived at the scene and prevented a potentially larger incident.
Two days after the incident, the journalists provided a statement to the prosecutor at the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office, who is the contact point for journalist safety in Subotica.
Source: Magločistač
