In front of the 29th session of the Emergency Situations Headquarters in the city of Leskovac, the Secretary of the Red Cross of this city Dragan Velickovic talked to his colleague. complained of the action by the Serbian Red Cross regarding the distribution of humanitarian packages for Roma in Leskovac and the Jablanica region. In his conversation, he named the Roma "Gypsies" and continued in the jargon: "Who will now go to the gypsy settlements, who will now deal with the Gypsies!".
But he did not notice that journalist and editor Zoran Saitovic, who is of Roma nationality, was sitting next to him.
Journalist Saitovic asked Velickovic to give him information on the number and manner of distribution of those packages, to which Velickovic reacted violently and began to insult the journalist on a personal and family basis.
After the meeting, Velickovic literally left the building without any answer or explanation.
The editorial staff of ROMinfomedia will inform the Association of Journalists about this incident and the attack on the journalist, and will file a lawsuit against Dragan Velickovic with the Civil Rights Defender.
