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The Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation in Serbia, Andreas von Beekerat, stated this evening that independent media are guardians of the public interest, calling for accountability from those in power. Therefore, he expects the relevant authorities to urgently take action regarding the verbal and physical threats and attacks on journalists.

The President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Maja Sever, assessed that the film about Veran Matić and the recent events are not dangerous, but rather that she genuinely admires Matić for managing to stay on his feet.

More than 180 former employees and associates of the former RTV B92 have reacted to the ongoing attacks on Veran Matić with a letter of support, which we are publishing in its entirety.

"I will file a lawsuit against the author of the film about me. I suspect that the state is behind the signatory of that content," said Veran Matić, President of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, while appearing on the program 'Pravi ugao' on Radio-Television Vojvodina (RTV).

The Management Board of Radio-Television of Serbia has made a decision to appoint Maja Grčić as the General Director of Radio-Television of Serbia for a term of five years, officially announced RTS.

“I call on the President of Serbia to clearly distance himself from the campaign against Veran Matić. Otherwise, if anything happens to Veran Matić, we will hold the President of Serbia responsible,” emphasizes Pavol Salaj, director of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) bureau in Prague, highlighting that the organization is outraged by the video broadcast on several television channels and the defamatory statements that accompanied it.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has announced the register of candidates for members of the selection committees for co-financing projects in the field of public information.

My support for Veran today is support for a simple, basic, yet critically endangered idea: that a journalist must not be prey, that an editor must not be a target, and that the safety of journalists is not a privilege, but the minimum requirement of any society that calls itself democratic.

The International Press Institute (IPI) from Vienna has condemned, as stated, the unacceptable smear campaign against their Media Freedom Hero in the world, Veran Matić, and called on those behind the recent attacks to immediately remove the "defamatory content."