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VERY SELF-RESPECTING European country needs a public broadcaster. So after Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991, it gave Radio-Television of Slovenia (
RTV-SLO) a mandate to report independently, unlike the state propaganda that passed for news under communism. Indeed,
RTV-SLO has proved too independent for Slovenia’s current prime minister, Janez Jansa. For more than a year he has been browbeating the network’s journalists on social media. Wags have consequently dubbed Mr Jansa “Marshal Twito”, a nod to Josip Tito, Yugoslavia’s longtime dictator. His government is refusing to pay
RTV-
SLO’s budget, and wants to pass a new media law that will make it easier to control.
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Tom Wood
10:38 AM, January 29 2021 GMT
A woman has been left with a fractured skull after a police water cannon was turned on her during anti-lockdown riots in the Netherlands over the weekend.
A video of the incident shows Denisa Štastná taking the full force of the cannon whilst standing on a street in Eindhoven.
The jet, fired from a police van, knocked her clean off her feet and pushed her into the side of a building.
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She reportedly had to have 15 stitches in her head after the incident.
Denisa, a Czech national, claims that she and her boyfriend were not involved in the rioting in protest against the country s stricter lockdown rules, but had turned out to film the events.
A woman was reportedly left with a fractured skull after she was hit by water cannon spray during attempts by Dutch police to disperse an anti-lockdown demonstration. Footage from Dutch organisation Ongehoord Nederland showed the woman being slammed into a building by the water cannon's jet which had been aimed towards her and another protester. Blood could be seen pouring down her face as she was led away. The footage was taken on Sunday, the.