{"id":"SIG-SRB-039","country":"Serbia","excerpt":"Vučić deploys 'strani plaćenici' (foreign mercenaries) label against NGOs during ecological protests; Večernje novosti and Politika amplify — continuation of foreign agent framing from May 2024 (SRB-025) through summer.","date_text":"20/08/2024","actor_text":"Aleksandar Vučić","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-007","incident_id":"SRB-039","observation":{"target":"NGO sector broadly","case_id":"SRB-039","country":"Serbia","signal_id":"SIG-SRB-039","harm_track":"Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-007","source_type":"Legacy Press","tactic_code":"Official State Authorization","target_type":"Sector","trigger_type":"TR-02: Civic Mobilization","actor_primary":"Aleksandar Vučić","campaign_phase":"Phase 1: Authorization","event_date_raw":"20/08/2024","channel_primary":"Legacy Press","date_confidence":"exact","confidence_notes":"Fills gap in SRB-CAMP-007 between May 2024 (SRB-025) and Dec 2024 (SRB-014). Triggered by ecological protests. Šabić counter-argument: same donors fund government and SNS.","escalation_stage":"1","actor_type_primary":"Senior Official","source_text_excerpt":"Vučić deploys 'strani plaćenici' (foreign mercenaries) label against NGOs during ecological protests; Večernje novosti and Politika amplify — continuation of foreign agent framing from May 2024 (SRB-025) through summer.","consequence_category":"Social Trust Erosion","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2024-08-20","primary_narrative_code":"NF-01","primary_narrative_label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","secondary_narrative_code":"","institutional_consequence":"Narrative damage","secondary_narrative_label":""},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Legacy Press","target_text":"NGO sector broadly","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2024-08-20","confidence_notes":"Fills gap in SRB-CAMP-007 between May 2024 (SRB-025) and Dec 2024 (SRB-014). Triggered by ecological protests. Šabić counter-argument: same donors fund government and SNS.","secondary_source_url":""}