A Serbian journalist Marija Antic has said she received death and rape threats after grilling a far-right French activist Arnaud Gouillon about his views and activism.
“The job of a journalist is to try to come to the truth. It’s for the audience to accept this truth or not,” Antic told BIRN.
During her December 2 interview with French-Serbian citizen Arnaud Gouillon, known best in Serbia for his advocacy for Serbs in Kosovo, Antic asked him about his past involvement in the far-right Identity Movement in France.
Gouillon said he had been a member of the Movement in the past but denied any current connection with it.
Two days later, VICE website revealed that Gouillon had been a speaker at an Identity Movement event in 2012 at which participants wore pig masks to show contempt for Islam.
Antic also asked Gouillon about his connections with Serbia’s own far-right 1389 movement, as he has attended some of its events, but Gouillon denied any real connection.
Soon after the interview, Gouillon, who is head of an NGO called “Solidarity for Kosovo”, complained on social media that he had been “attacked” and said that N1 television had tried to “demonize” him.
“It is obvious that they prepared themselves carefully for these attacks, and that they intended to demonize me in order to look like a bad guy,” he said.
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