Suzana Mancic Reports Harassment: 'I Feel Threatened'
The TV host says she has repeatedly turned to the High-Tech Crime Department over disturbing social media messages. When they keep coming and never stop, she says, she genuinely feels threatened.
- Suzana Mancic has turned to the High-Tech Crime Department several times over disturbing messages.
- She cited examples such as "You ruined my life" and "I'll kill myself because of you."
- There have also been, she says, psychotic individuals who latch on, leaving her feeling threatened.
TV host Suzana Mancic has revealed that she has turned to the police more than once, specifically to the High-Tech Crime Department, over disturbing messages she receives on social media. She says she blocks the harmless ones, but that when the messages start repeating and simply do not stop, she genuinely begins to feel threatened.
This is not about a single incident. Mancic describes how courtship has largely moved to social media, something she does not view kindly, and how some people have crossed the line of decency more than once. When she notices that someone will not let go, her first move is to block. When even that does not help, she takes it further.
The messages that disturbed her most
As examples of the worst messages, she pointed to ones that combine emotional blackmail with a threat. “You ruined my life” and “I’ll kill myself because of you” are just two of the lines she says she has received. Such messages are not ordinary flattery but a pattern that repeats and intensifies, and it is precisely that continuity that worries her.
Mancic notes that on several occasions she has also encountered people who display psychotic behavior. Such individuals, she says, latch on and are hard to shake off, and the messages shift from unpleasant to threatening. At that point it is no longer an uncomfortable comment online, but something that pushed her to seek help from the authorities.
That is why she contacted the High-Tech Crime Department, which handles exactly these kinds of cases on the internet. The messages were reviewed, according to her, and she described the decision to report as a logical step once the risk assessment stops being a matter of impression and becomes one of safety.
When does ordinary harassment become a threat?
That is a question Mancic asks herself as well. For her, the clear difference lies in repetition. A single unpleasant message can be ignored or blocked. But when the same or similar messages arrive again and again, when they mention death or violence, and when the person on the other end refuses to back off, the threshold has been crossed. That, she says, is when ordinary harassment turns into something that feels like a real threat.
Public figures are exposed to such messages more than others, because their accounts are open and visible and the volume is high. That does not make the harassment any less serious. On the contrary, greater visibility often means a larger number of people willing to cross the line. Mancic argues that blocking and reporting are not an overreaction, but a way to protect herself once the assessment is no longer just a feeling.
Her statement also opens a broader issue that concerns everyone, not only the famous. Where is the line between an unpleasant message and a threat that deserves a police report, and when would you make that call?
