International Day to End Impunity 2025: ECPMF’s Silence Is the Crime

On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, 2/11, I speak of ECPMF, because its silence is impunity, polished and European.

I remember the silence more than the vandalism.

On 11 October 2025, after unknown men shattered the windows of my family’s empty house in Kosovo and desecrated the memorial car we kept for my late father, I did what journalists are trained to do: I documented it, issued a statement¹, and asked the institutions that claim to defend press freedom to stand where they say they stand. It was a textbook case. Nothing was stolen. The target was not property, it was reporting. The attack followed months of threats from the same circles I had been exposing for laundering Belgrade’s and the oligarchs’ interests through media. It followed a year of articles that made a lot of comfortable people uncomfortable. It was, in every meaningful way, the kind of incident European organisations love to condemn when it happens far enough away.

The National Union of Journalists spoke². The International Federation of Journalists spoke³. CPJ welcomed swift police action⁴. The European Centre for Press and Media Fr…