A video of Popović attacking Vlahović appeared

A video of Montenegrin writer Miodrag Popović attacking former diplomat Miodrag Vlahović appeared on social networks.

Although Popović claimed that everything else was a verbal conflict, the video also shows physical contact.

Several eyewitnesses told "Vijesti" that Popović physically attacked Vlahović, and Vlahović stated that "Popović only tried to push him."

The incident happened when Vlahović pulled up a chair and sat down at the table where Popović was already sitting with three friends.

Then Popović got up and started insulting and pushing Vlahović, who was sitting motionless.

Popović told Vlahović to leave in an ugly tone, he left several times and returned to the table.

"I was sitting with academician Vukić Pulević and journalist Danilo Dar Burzan. The man sat down at our table without asking. I said that I didn't want to sit at the same table with him. Everything ended with that verbal conflict. After that I got up, paid for the drink and left," Popović said earlier.

The former minister of foreign affairs and former ambassador of Montenegro in Washington and the Vatican told "Vijesta" that he did not touch anyone and that he did nothing wrong.

He said that Popović did not hit him, but that he only tried to push him.

"I get a chair and sit down to talk with respected friends with whom I have been sitting for almost 12 years. Then I experienced Popović's inappropriate reaction, full of bad words. I consider the event to be completely irrelevant information for informing the public," said Vlahović briefly.

Officials of the Podgorica Security Center were informed about the incident, and in a telephone conversation they informed the former diplomat about the possibility of filing a criminal complaint.

Vlahović did not file a complaint against Popović.

Popović is the winner of the Njegoš Award for the novel "Man without a Face", which in 2017 stirred up the public due to the decision of the international jury, because many believed that it was "a kind of cultural scandal and that the Njegoš Award was degraded".

Popović is also a former boxer from Cetinje.

He is the founder and editor of the publishing house Open Cultural Forum and the magazine Ars.