Serbia's president apologizes for calling state TV reporter an 'imbecile' over coverage of protests

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Serbia's president apologizes for calling state TV reporter an 'imbecile' over coverage of protests

Serbia’s populist president has apologized for calling a reporter with the state TV broadcaster an “imbecile” after her report from a massive anti-government protest over the weekend.

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Journalists and media workers from Niš have announced that they do not accept President Aleksandar Vučić's apology to RTS Niš correspondents and that they are suspending reporting on all presidential activities until an appropriate public apology is made. The statement is reproduced in full: We, the undersigned journalists and media workers from Niš, do not accept the apology of the President of the State of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, to RTS Niš …

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic apologized on Monday for calling a reporter for a state-run TV channel an “imbecile” after her reporting on a mass anti-government protest over the weekend.

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The collegium of RTS called President Aleksandar Vučić's statement inappropriate, euronews serbia, euronews serbia, euronews serbia, euronews serbia, euronews, euronews

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The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, apologized to the citizens of Serbia and to the journalists of the RTS correspondent in Niš for calling them "imbeciles", but at the same time he repeated his criticism of them, saying that they are "a shame for their profession" and that they behave like "political activists".

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The President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, sent a letter regarding the latest events and an apology to the citizens of Serbia for calling the correspondents in the Niš correspondent office of Radio Television of Serbia imbeciles. We are publishing the statement in its entirety.