Sem Fabrizi (Beta/Milan Obradovic)
EU Delegation Head in Serbia Sem Fabrizi said on Jan. 28 that the EU believed in the plurality of outlets and that the N1 TV station was an important source of news for Serbia's citizens.
"We support plurality and the informing of citizens. The plurality of voices needs to be strengthened," Fabrizi said at a Data Protection Day celebration.
N1 quoted him as saying that he did not want to go into the commercial aspects of television, but that plurality needed to be raised and not lowered.
The station said that its website suffered a cyber attack on Jan. 28 due to which its internet news and application were unavailable.
"The attack was a paid Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack staged from China which has lasted since the early morning. A DDos attack is when several thousand computers try to overburdon a web server, network or other part of infrastructure and block user access," a statement said.
It added that these attacks could not have happened by accident and that they were part of an organized effort, "So we cannot but ask ourselves whether this is a continuation of the campaign that is being led against N1 these days."
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