"BNT TV crew pelted with stones", 14 Jun 2022

On 14 June 2022, a TV crew of four journalists from the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) was attacked while reporting on environmental pollution in Bosilegrad, Serbia. The team of the investigative programme "Traces Remain" including journalist Bogdana Lazarova, cameramen Dimitar Slavov and Nikolai Andreev and technician Robert Vetsov was reporting on pollution at a border mine. They were driving towards the mine entrance accompanied by five activists when they were stopped by a van parked across the road. The journalists got out of their car and started walking when the mine's director together with several employees and security workers started throwing rocks at them, hitting the camera. "We were filming on the territory of Serbia with official permission from the authorities. We were approaching the mine on a state road, but 40-50 meters before the entrance to the mine we were met by the manager Miodrag Mihajlovic with 4-5 of his men and they started throwing big stones, 10 cm big, aiming at our heads, aiming at the equipment, with shouts: ‘Get out, we will kill you”, said Lazarova.