Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) journalist Nebojša Šofranac commented on the news that the RTCG Ombudsman has requested the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against him due to, as announced by the public service yesterday, the way Šofranac commented on incidents in the stands during the broadcast of the Montenegro - Croatia match, including hate speech and provocative chants.
Šofranac points out that with the headphones he wore during the broadcast, he could not hear "a single word from the opposite box."
"As soon as I received a short video in the middle of the match, I immediately said no without any verification," the journalist wrote on Facebook.
He also says that they are trying to defame him based on untruths.
"And no no no no, not this. Not on the portal for which I have written a million texts since its founding in the past 13 years and tonight I was getting ready for all the calculations of Haiti and Suriname and to write a summary of the entire qualifications in the morning. Not from colleagues for whom I am always there half the day and half the night when something needs to be done. Not like this cowardly without a signature or anything. Not from the ombudsman who, as I just found out, is a man whom I called to my football team 300 times, and was my good colleague at IN, we were friends for years. And especially not based on a rotten lie, because I have already explained twice that with the headphones that I have to wear all the time because of the microphone, I could not hear a single word from the opposite box, they did not hear it even in the reporting car, let alone me with headphones, and as soon as I received a short video in the middle of the match, I immediately said without any verification. They saw it, they see everything, they read everything, and they know very well that it is so. Based on such a lie, based on 0/0, on the basis of nothing to make such a slander, on a day in which I gave the maximum since dawn, it cannot. Now we have to see if there are human rights or if nationalists can create, pressure the media, dictate. Without freedom, life is worth nothing," Šofranac wrote.
He also posted on Facebook yesterday that late the night before last he saw a banner that "had escaped everyone at the stadium."
The Croatian fans' banner, along with insults, read: "Screams can be heard from Dubrovnik... There is no forgiveness."
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