Protest in Front of Informer TV Station and Newspaper

Photo: PrintScreen informer.rs

Several thousand university students and other citizens gathered at a protest held under the heading "Disinformer" in front of the offices of the Informer tabloid and TV station in Belgrade on March 29, concluding the demonstration without any indidents after slightly over six hours.

The students delivered multiple performances in the course of the demonstration, during which Peka Dapcevica Street in Belgrade's Vozdovac district, where Informer is based, was blocked. These performances included a segment called, "Cleaning and Scrubbing of the Media Space" during which the students "decontaminated media waste" and warned those assembled not to get too close because there was too much "media muck."

The protesters also signed a petition demanding that the station's Belgrade broadcasting permit be revoked and hung a number of the newspaper's front pages on the newly installed fence of the building complex that houses the tabloid, dubbed it the "Journalistic Wall of Shame." Speaking from an improvised stage on a truck by the fence in front of Informer, the students said that "Informer is not a media outlet, it is a propaganda mouthpiece for the regime" and read out parts of the Journalistic Code of Serbia which they said Informer violated on a daily basis.

The protest included 16 minutes of silence in memory of the 16 people killed after the collapse of a reconstructed overhang at the main railway station in Novi Sad on Nov. 1 2024. The students occupying the Faculty of Political Sciences earlier called for a peaceful protest in front of Informer after declaring a "media war" against the tabloid for attacks, targeting and lies by the TV station and newspaper.