The executive director of "Daily Press" Željko Ivanović will be heard on July 19 in the proceedings of the lawsuit filed by the publisher "Vijesti" against Montenegro, due to the state's inadequate response to the terrorist attacks on "Vijesti" property.
Mechanical expert Miodrag Vukčević estimated that the amount of damage to the four burned "Vijesti" vehicles was around 8.500 euros.
The representative of "Vijesti", lawyer Veselin Radulović, had no objections to the expert's findings and opinion, stressing that the key basis for filing a lawsuit is the improper work of the state and acts of violence and terror, not compensation for damages.
Milan Krsmanović, the deputy protector of property and legal interests of the state, believes that the starting point for making the findings was completely wrong, because in his opinion, the expert should have dealt with the prices of the vehicles in the years they were acquired, and not take the price of the vehicles from this year.
The expert explained that based on the rules on damage assessment, when calculating the amount of damage, the prices of parts or vehicles are taken on the day of the report.
"The value of the repair would be much higher than the damage determined by the finding", stated Vukčević.
When asked by Radulović if the expert knows how the state calculates taxes on purchased vehicles, Vukčević stated that they do it in the same way as the expert, whose findings they objected to today.
Judge Ana Perović Vojinović refused to hear the other witnesses on the circumstances of the continuous process of attacks and threats that the employees of "Vijesti" have been suffering since 2007, the editor-in-chief of "Vijesti" Mihailo Jovović, the photojournalist Boris Pejović and the journalist Olivera Lakić, considering that their hearing is redundant and without influence on the decision in that dispute.
At the end of October last year, Radulović filed a lawsuit against the state of Montenegro, which demands compensation of around 60.000 euros, because it did not prevent terrorist attacks on the property of "Vijesti", as well as because the competent authorities did not find the perpetrators of the burning of four official vehicles of the newspaper. , in July and August 2011. The lawsuit alleges that the state did not find the perpetrators of terrorist acts, nor did it show any willingness to take measures to identify them, and that it did not protect the interests and rights of the "Daily Press".
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