Serbian Singer Slams PM Over Concert ‘Censorship’ – Balkan Insight

Serbian pop singer Vlado Georgiev will consult his lawyers about suing pro-government station TV Pink for spreading false information about his concert cancellation during an interview it broadcast with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Danas newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Vucic told TV Pink on Monday that the concert scheduled for March 4in Smederevo, a town 80 kilometres south of Belgrade, wasnt forbidden but cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

Georgiev claims however that it was cancelled because he has expressed support for the former Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic, who is running against Vucic in the presidential election on April 2.

He accused TV Pink of broadcasting the most brutal lies and said he was considering suing the channel for spreading such stupidities.

He said he had not decided yet whether to sue Vucic too.

On the day of the cancelled concert, large numbers of fans of Georgiev protested by taking to the streets of Smederevo at 8.30pm, when the gig should have started, in a rally organised via Facebook.

Vucic insisted to TV Pink that only 970 people demonstrated, not 5,000 as media reports said.

Georgiev said he was informed about the cancellation of his concert via Twitter 18 days prior to the event.

To tell someone that a concert has been cancelled due to unsold tickets 18 day before the event is a brutal insult, he told Danas.

The situation I experienced made me think that Im living in Russia in Stalins times, and maybe Stalin would have killed me, but for sure he would not cancel my concert, which means that this country [Serbia] is completely subject to censorship, he added.

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