Activist: 430 LGBT+ people filed charges of attacks in Serbia in 2020

During the promotion of  'Data, not bells' report, added 50.2 percent of those who contacted the organisation did it seeking advice, while 9.2 percent called about physical violence.

An author of the report Nikola Planojevic said a new term such as 'an overcomer' was used instead of 'victim,' or 'harmed,' and that it was chosen as the closest to the translation of 'a survivor.'

He said the word 'queer' was also used to describe all the terms for different sexual identities, as a replacement for 'LGBT+' name dominantly used before the latest report.

"The problem is with an insufficient number of reported cases. Also, the perpetrators' motives are not recognised well enough, and the incidents are reported as 'regular' crimes and not as hate crimes,"

Milos Kovacevic, also an author of the report, said that "only every third case is visible to the respective institutions.

"In 2019, there were 63 illegal acts motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity," he added.

He said that 47 such incidents happened in Belgrade. A total of 18 attacks happened in public places and ten at the known LGBT community premises.

Kovacevic added that less than half of the attacks were physical, with or without bodily harm, and the other included psychological violence and discrimination.