{"id":"SRB-106","notes":"This fits the established Serbian doctrine of inverting accountability incidents so that captured media and regime figures appear as victims of a violent, foreign-influenced opposition. The novel element here is the local-level extension — a town-level Facebook page and a named local criminal are folded into the national 'opposition incites violence against journalists' narrative, broadening the targeting geography.","country":"Serbia","sources":[{"url":"https://informer.rs/politika/vesti/1125217/dejan-vukelic-informer-pretnje","citation":"https://informer.rs/politika/vesti/1125217/dejan-vukelic-informer-pretnje"}],"summary":"Pro-government tabloid Informer reports that a local Facebook page 'Čačanski front' and a Čačak resident (named as a known criminal) targeted and threatened Informer journalist Dragana Čendić and deputy editor-in-chief Dejan Vukelić over the journalist's coverage of a court trial. The article frames Informer staff — regime-aligned media — as victims of threats attributed to the opposition and protest movement.","tactics":[{"code":"TC-52","role":"primary","label":"Inverted Victimhood as Enforcement Pretext","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":[],"entities":[{"id":1037,"name":"Informer (state-captured tabloid); Association of Journalists of Serbia (ANS)","role":"actor","entity_type":"State-Captured Media"},{"id":1038,"name":"Opposition / protest movement ('blockaders'), Local civic page 'Čačanski front', Opposition figures broadly (Savo Manojlović named and ridiculed)","role":"target","entity_type":""}],"date_text":"Mid-2026 (article references the ongoing 'sonic weapon' affair and related prosecution)","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":2,"harm_track":"Delegitimization of opposition; chilling effect on civic commentary","narratives":[{"code":"LEGACY-N-1a03c7a7f77b","role":"primary","label":"Opposition as violent destabilizers attacking loyal journalists","needs_review":true}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":[],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":null,"campaign_ids":["SRB-CAMP-014"],"enabler_type":"","response_ids":[],"trigger_type":"Social media criticism and threats directed at Informer journalists following the journalist's coverage of a court trial; embedded in the broader regime campaign reframing the March 2025 'sonic weapon' accountability incident as an opposition-orchestrated plot.","campaign_phase":"Narrative Seeding","civic_response":"","date_precision":"unknown","enabler_status":"","campaigns_served":[],"consequence_category":"","institutional_consequence":"None documented — narrative phase; functions to delegitimize opposition and create pretext for enforcement against protest movement"}