The executive director of "Daily Press" Željko Ivanović assessed that the Montenegrin institutions failed, not only in the case of the burning of the "Vijesti" vehicle, but also in a series of events in which the company and its employees were persecuted and intimidated in various ways in recent years, and as the main the provocateur of the violence, according to "Vijesti", marked the president of the DPS, Milo Đukanović.
Judge Ana Perović Vojinović will make a decision in the lawsuit filed by the publisher "Vijesti" due to the state's inadequate response to terrorist attacks on the property of "Vijesti" in the next month.
Ivanović, in his testimony in the Basic Court in Podgorica, pointed out that the company and its employees have been suffering physical, institutional and financial violence for many years, which, as a rule, are preceded by public appearances by the head of DPS.
"Five employees suffered physical attacks, the perpetrators of which are still unknown today, and two employees live under 24-hour security. Three interviews of Đukanović, who is claimed by international institutions to be the head of organized crime, preceded these attacks. and his statement "journalists should not be physically threatened, but handed over to the court", right when he sued us in 2007, led to a flood of lawsuits against our house. We are so present here that we could take accommodation in court. While I testify "The proceedings against the editor-in-chief are ongoing, and tomorrow the verdict will be handed down for the attack on our journalist," Ivanović said.
He added that Đukanović wanted to send a message to everyone that this is the best way to financially threaten the stability of the company, a message that the judiciary quickly understood, and handed down judgments without evidence and in record time.
"We have paid close to 200 euros in the last five years in the name of so-called professional judgments of the independent judiciary and legal services. It is a planned and organized campaign to ruin our house and make it impossible to publish our daily newspaper," Ivanović said.
To the questions of the lawyer Veselin Radulović, whether in the year since the vehicle was set on fire, he received any notification from the competent authorities about developments in the investigation, whether the employees of "Vijesti" were invited to the prosecutor to provide any information in order to elucidation of that crime, and whether the state has discovered the instigators, motives and reasons in any case of attacks on property or employees of "Vijesti", Ivanovic gave an affirmative answer.
"That fact alone fuels our suspicions that it is state terror that is persistently carried out, because the unprofessional behavior of the competent authorities allows those who organize, order and execute them to go unpunished", concluded the executive director of "Daily Press".
The lawsuit against the state of Montenegro was filed at the end of October last year, and it demands compensation of 8.600 euros, due to the failure to prevent terrorist attacks on the property of "Vijesti", as well as the fact that the competent authorities did not find the perpetrators of the burning of four official vehicles of the newspaper, which were set on fire in July and August last year.
Đukanović calls for a public lynching
When asked by Radulović what amount of damages the Podgorica Basic Court awarded to Đukanović for violating his honor and reputation, due to the text published in "Vijesti", Ivanović reminded that the head of the DPS asked for a million euros, and received 20 thousand euros.
"And that without presenting evidence, without conducting a psychiatric examination to establish whether he suffered mental pain, as well as without his immediate hearing," Ivanovic stated.
Ivanovic added that, apart from "Vijesti" and "Dana", none of the Montenegrin media has dealt critically with Đukanović, who uses other media to call for the public lynching of media that oppose him.
""Dan" suffered when their editor-in-chief Duško Jovanović was killed, and we are still suffering in various ways," Ivanović believes.
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