Jelena Tanasković, former Minister of Agriculture and former acting the director of the public company “Infrastruktur železnica Srbije” and one of the defendants in the case of the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad in which 15 people died, last week she filed a second lawsuit against KRIK – because of the news in which they informed the public that she had filed a previous lawsuit against them. Tanasković filed two lawsuits against KRIK within a month.
In the latest lawsuit, Tanasković claims that KRIK presented her as a “murderer” and a “criminal” and is again asking for one million dinars in compensation, as in the previous case.
In no part of the text, however, was it said that Tanasković was accused or suspected of murder, but that she was one of the suspects in the case of the roof falling in Novi Sad. In addition, she claims in the lawsuit that she is presented as a “criminal who deals with corruption” because, as she explained, KRIK deals with topics in the field of organized crime and corruption.
The editors of KRIK are currently facing 19 proceedings against themselves, and the editor-in-chief, Stevan Dojčinović, marks them as part of a strategy to intimidate this media and prevent it from reporting. Among them are the lawsuits of judge Dušanka Đorđević, who also filed a criminal lawsuit and seeks prison terms for KRIK journalists, Predrag Koluvija, who is accused of being the organizer of a criminal group that produced more than a ton and a half of marijuana, the president’s godfather Nikola Petrović, the former MUP state secretary Dijana Hrkalović and others.
Read more about this on the KRIK portal.
