Pašalić on reporting in Danka Ilic case: Victim and her family are secondarily victimized

(SOURCE: РТС) Protector of Citizens Zoran Pasalic, speaking about the reporting of some media in the case of the murdered girl Danka Ilic, said that the victim is secondarily victimized, as well as her family. In practice, it turned out that such reporting hurt the victim more, if she survived, her family and citizens, Pasalic says, pointing out that he repeatedly appealed not to report it, but that there were no results.

While the police  are searching for the body of Danka Ilic, there are many who have embarrassed themselves. In addition to the enormous tragedy that the family experienced, they also had to struggle with monstrous reporting.

Protector of Citizens Zoran Pasalic said in  the Morning Program  that he insists on reporting in such situations so that the public is informed, but not that the victim is secondarily victimized, as well as her family.

“In practice, it turned out that such reporting hurt the victim more, if she survived, and certainly her family, and I can say the citizens. Sensationalist reporting has a counter-effect and I don’t see the point,” Pasalic said.

He pointed out that the institution of the protector of citizens has repeatedly appealed not to report in a sensationalist way, but that this has not yielded results.

It is also approaching the anniversaries of mass murders in Ribnikar, Dubona and Mali Orasje. Unfortunately, these tragedies have marked an entire generation of schoolchildren.

Pašalić says it must be taken into account that after the mass murder, the perpetrator had a lot of support on social media.

“We have to make sure that something like this doesn’t happen again. The virtual world in which children stay for a long time leads to the fact that they think the wrong way,” the protector of citizens noted.

He also talked about the children who live on the streets. He says there are only records of those engaged in begging.

“It is important that they cannot do it alone, in most cases there is someone who organizes these children, and they rarely fell under the law,” Pasalic said.

According to him, it must be seen whether there is anyone to take care of the children living on the streets, and if not, the state must take care of them.

The Protector of Citizens should present today a Special Report on the Implementation of Inclusive Education in the Republic of Serbia.

He stresses that it is necessary to break prejudices in this regard.

“Whenever we talk about it, we forget that these include extremely talented children, whose usual way of teaching does not meet their needs, i.e. they are bored in school,” Pasalic noted.