After several related incidents and indications that he was being targeted for his authorial shows, journalist Mladen Stojović asked the National Security Agency (ANB) to assess whether he was at risk.
Stojović did not want to disclose the details of the letter sent to the Agency's director, Ivica Janović, so as not to jeopardize a possible investigation.
"This morning I requested a security assessment from the ANB so that it would not be assessed when it was too late," he said.
Stojović wrote the same on his Facebook profile, stating that it has a preventive purpose, because the situations he has already gone through and which preceded the attack on him in May 2008 are being repeated.
"At that time I had no one to turn to, now the situation is a little better. I informed the director of the ANB about the indications based on which I am requesting a security assessment. The content is not made public due to the desire to protect those closest to me from possible inconveniences," he wrote.
Those responsible for the brutal attack on Stojović on May 23, 2008, were never found, and the statute of limitations has expired in that case.
According to previous reports by the Commission for Monitoring Investigations into Attacks on Journalists and Media Property, on the night Stojović was beaten, two police officers were at the scene, namely in the journalist's apartment, but they did not even attempt to take fingerprints or discover anything that could be a clue to finding the attacker.
"There is no information that the police subsequently came to Stojović's apartment in an attempt to discover any clues that could lead them to the attacker," one of the reports states.
The commission noted that the shortcomings were also pointed out by a forensic medicine specialist, who stated that the police did not search for traces of blood in a professional manner.
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