#IFJBlog: The murder of Slavko Ćuruvija – A state of impunity, criminal anarchy and unprecedented violence
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11 April 2026 marks twenty-seven years since the unpunished murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, a prominent Serbian journalist and the publisher of Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin. As the Latin phrase goes, ‘Fiat justitia ruat caelum’: 'Let justice be done, though the heavens fall'. But what can we say when there is no justice and the sky has fallen on everyone in Serbia? We are living in a state of criminal anarchy and unprecedented violence.
Slavko Ćuruvija, a steadfast fighter for the truth during the darkest hours of Serbian modern history, a period written in the blood of Slobodan Milošević’s regime, was gunned down and killed. He was shot from the back, just a step away from his home, in central Belgrade, on 11 April 1999, Orthodox Easter, amidst the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. According to the information leaked from the secret police file, ‘Ćuran’, – Ćuruvija – was followed by 27
