Vucevic: Tanjug attacked for reporting on Kosovo-Metohija

NOVI SAD - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic on Wednesday strongly condemned death threats to Tanjug journalists and noted that the fact Tanjug was a media outlet reporting on the situation in the Serbian Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija made the attack on the agency all the more scandalous.

"Full support to you, because you have been attacked for working on reporting and informing the public about Kosovo-Metohija. That makes the attack all the more scandalous - full support to Tanjug," Vucevic said in a statement to the agency.

He added that he believed special departments of the police and a prosecutor's office would track down and identify the perpetrators even in case they were out of Serbia's reach.

"I especially look forward to the passage of a law amending the Law on the Organisation of Judicial Institutions, in which we will have a special department at the prosecutor's office that will be dealing with misdeeds having to do with Kosovo-Metohija, which will be our signature as a serious state," Vucevic concluded.

On Monday evening, the Tanjug News Agency received an email signed by an individual named "Trim Bardhi" that said Tanjug journalists would get "a bullet to the back of their heads" the next time they set foot in the territory of Serbia's Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.