N1 TV journalist, his family assaulted by neighbor

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N1 TV journalist Dusan Mladjenovic and his family were assaulted on Sunday by a neighbor who received support on Twitter, reported the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS).

Mladjenovic told UNS that he and his family were assaulted Sunday afternoon by a neighbor, that the attack had nothing to do with him being a journalist, but that he wrote about the incident on Twitter and that a Twitter user commented on it supporting the attacker.

“He must have found out what you do and where you work…I believe I would have done more or less the same if you or one of your colleagues were my neighbors,” commented the Twitter user going by the name of Josphat Mbayan

When Mladjenovic and his family were moving into an apartment on Sunday, a neighbor poured water on them and threatened them.

“He came down from the floor above and poured a bucket of water on the children, aged six and two. He shouted that he would make our lives hell. We found out that he has been harassing the people in the building for years, screaming in the middle of the night. He physically attacked a neighbor. Institutions have not been reacting for years,“ Mladjenovic wrote on Twitter.

He told UNS that he reported the incident in the building to the police, but not the Twitter comment.

“I thank the police officers who were perfect and who experienced the school trauma three days ago which they will carry for life. The system isn’t failing? It most certainly is. People like him must not be left without supervision, without control, who knows what they could do tomorrow,” wrote the N1 journalist, adding that this man will be reprimanded by the police and then set free.

“And if this happens again, he will be apprehended. Is that enough? No, it isn’t. But that it all the police can do,” said Mladjenovic, adding that other bodies need to take measures but that he fears this will not happen.

Three years ago, when walking down a street with his son, Mladjenovic was harassed by an unidentified person who also called him a “sellout.”