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Mayor from ruling SNS party detained for attack on journalist in Belgrade (Prva TV, Tanjug, B92)

Veran Matic, chairman of the Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists, spoke for Prva TV in Belgrade on Monday morning about the arrest of Dragoljub Simonovic. Dragoljub Simonovic, mayor of Grocka municipality and senior official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) is suspected of ordering a fire to be started on the property of Milan Jovanovic, a journalist of the local Zig Info website. The arson attack happened on December 12, 2018. "If he has been arrested, there is evidence and there are a lot of indications that Simonovic did it," Matic said.