January 25, 2019

25/1/2019: SERBIA – PERSONS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRE ARRESTED

Vienna, 25 January 2019

The Souht East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) welcoms the police action in Serbia which has led to the arrest of the alleged instigator of the arson attack against journalist Milan Jovanović.

Dragoljub Simonović, President of Grocka municipality and member of the leading political party in Serbia, was arrested as suspected of ordering the arson attack on the house of Milan Jovanović, a correspondent of the news portal Žig info. This follows the arrest of three additional persons for this crime in December of last year.