On December 12, 2018, the house of Milan Jovanovic, an investigative journalist for the independent news website ‘’Zig Info’’, was set ablaze at 3:30 am in Vrcin when a Molotov cocktail was thrown through his garage window and unidentified persons fired shots at his front door to prevent the family from leaving the house, local and regional media reported. Mr Jovanovic and his wife were able to escape through the back window and watched as their entire property, including a car, burned down. Jovanovic was not injured, but he claimed that the fire occurred because of his articles targeting the mafia in the municipality of Grocka, 20km from Belgrade. The journalist reported on the “suddenly acquired property” of the head of the local Grocer municipality, as well as alleging corruption in the construction of sewage systems, after which local authorities cut down his water supply.