Journalist ND "Vijesti" Jelena Jovanović was assigned 24-hour police escort and protection.
The security services recently informed the Association of Professional Journalists of Montenegro that they are conducting an assessment of Jovanović's security.
"A request has been sent to the competent authority for the preparation and delivery of a security assessment of the degree of vulnerability of this person," the UP said at the time, and then informed Jovanović that she was receiving 24-hour escort.
Jovanović had a police escort before and was repeatedly the target of threats, which is why the police provided security.
Jelena Jovanović recently filed a criminal complaint against the suspect in the two murders of Mario Milošević and lawyer Natalija Karadžić, after the lawyer sent her a letter called "response" to her official e-mail address, which included information on where she lives.
In addition to the criminal report submitted to the police, Jovanović wrote that she learned from the media that Karadžić filed a criminal complaint against her for false reporting, stating that the lawyer is trying to reduce the seriousness of the threats she persistently continues with this trick in connection with retort.
She asked the authorities to determine whether Karadžić committed the criminal offense of endangering safety for an extended period of time, as a co-perpetrator, with intent: "Or the eventual criminal offense of a serious threat to my life and health, persecution, blackmail so that I would not write texts and work her job, possible extortion in the same sense, racketeering or intimidation of witnesses of the criminal offense for which her client Mario Milošević is suspected..."
The journalist, who is a witness to the murder for which the prosecution suspects Milosevic, interpreted the allegations from the "reaction" as serious threats and an attempt to intimidate and discredit, because they also contained information about where he lives, which is not public, and which was disclosed when the allegations were published. a media outlet also published about the criminal report filed by the lawyer Karadžić.
Mario Milošević from Podgorica was heard nine days ago in the Podgorica High Court regarding the criminal complaint that Jovanović filed against him due to fear that her safety was threatened.
The hearing of Milosevic regarding the application was arranged in the building of the High Court because according to the law the President of the High Court Boris Savić must attend his testimony.
The authorities did not say what Milosevic said during the hearing.
Milošević, who according to operational data of the police is considered a high-ranking member of the Kavaka criminal group, is in the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, because of the accusation that he killed Radomir Đuričković from Cetinje and the suspicion that he killed the Podgorica restaurateur Miodrag Migi Kruščić, a crime witnessed by the journalist Jovanović .
Because of the threats to Jovanović, no one from the Government of Montenegro reacted, and the deputy of the Democrats, Vladimir Martinović, spoke, who wrote that he expects those responsible to bear adequate consequences "so that such cases do not repeat themselves".
"We are obliged to provide journalists in Montenegro with the right to freely and professionally perform their responsible work. Honorable and honest people, not, by any means, criminals," said Martinović.
"It is inadmissible for a suspected criminal and his lawyer in a democratic society to think of sending such a letter to any journalist, let alone to do it to a female journalist who is also a witness to a murder for which one of them is suspected", said the president of the Commission for Monitoring the Actions of Authorities. authorities in investigations of cases of threats, violence against journalists, murder of journalists and attacks on media property, Mihailo Jovović.
"It is not unexpected that even those suspected of the most serious crimes dare to threaten journalists through letters and referring to laws, because criminal behavior towards journalists has gone unpunished and encouraged from the top of the state for decades," said the editor-in-chief of ND earlier. "Vijesti" Srdan Kosović.
He then reminded that for months campaigns have been conducted at various levels against "Vijesta" with the aim of criminalizing and dehumanizing that media and the people who work in it, which can serve as inspiration for many who recognize those messages as a license or recommendation to harm journalists.
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